Rails 3 - Email feature without smtp

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Hi All,
I am new to Rails & I had the rails 3 setup on my windows
box for running a small application which used to send emails on
completion of certain tasks.
Snippet of code for sending mails, worked using the below method.

outlook = WIN32OLE.new(‘Outlook.Application’)
message = outlook.CreateItem(0)
message.Subject = t2_subject
message.HTMLBody = t2_body

Now I moved to Ubuntu for setting up ROR 3, and i cannot use the above
method to send mails from my linux box.

I know mostly people use ActionMailer for sending mails in ROR.
I had the following requirements, and anyone of you can shed some light
on these:
(i) I wanted to setup a send email method for ROR on linux box, without
having me setup SMTP server, or using my personal ID to send mails from
application.
(ii) If it can take a dummy ‘FROM’ email ID to deliver emails to all
recipients, that works for me.

Thanks

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On Thu, Aug 23, 2012 at 11:42 PM, ideal one [email protected]
wrote:

I know mostly people use ActionMailer for sending mails in ROR.
I had the following requirements, and anyone of you can shed some light
on these:
(i) I wanted to setup a send email method for ROR on linux box, without
having me setup SMTP server, or using my personal ID to send mails from
application.

The below episode gives a good intro about using action mailer
with your personal email.
http://asciicasts.com/episodes/206-action-mailer-in-rails-3

(ii) If it can take a dummy ‘FROM’ email ID to deliver emails to all
recipients, that works for me.

Not recommended for production.

–
Azhagu Selvan

http://tamizhgeek.in

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On Thursday, August 23, 2012 7:12:40 PM UTC+1, Ruby-Forum.com User
wrote:

having me setup SMTP server, or using my personal ID to send mails from
application.

There are a number of services (sendgrid, postage app, postmark app
etc.)
that expose either smtp or http apis for sending email. They take care
of
actually running email servers in both cases.