# Paranoid ar\_mailer

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/paranoid-ar-mailer/122339>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [December 6, 2007, 7:22pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/paranoid-ar-mailer/122339 "2007-12-06T19:22:08Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 1\
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**Author:** ![apie](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/ecccb3/32.png) [@apie](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/apie)\
**Post date:** [December 6, 2007, 7:22pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/paranoid-ar-mailer/122339/1 "2007-12-06T19:22:08Z")

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Hi

I am using ar\_,ailer and I love it. I am wondering though. Is there a  
way  
that it can be configured to not delete the emails, but rather just mark  
them as sent.  
We have a backgroundrb process that will be sending out notifications.  
If  
the server dies while in the process of sending them out it and  
backgroundrb  
starts up again, it could happen that it starts sending out  
notifications  
that have already been sent.

I can log the last time that a user was notified and check that before  
sending emails, but I was wondering if this functionality exists in  
ar\_mailer so that the backgroundrb process can just check if the mail it  
wants to send exists in the emails table before sending it.

Why are there so few posts etc. about ar\_mailer out there?

Ivor