# Receive Emails

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/receive-emails/106652>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [June 12, 2007, 9:08pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/receive-emails/106652 "2007-06-12T21:08:21Z")\
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**Author:** ![newby](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/n/58956e/32.png) [@newby](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/newby)\
**Post date:** [June 12, 2007, 9:08pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/receive-emails/106652/1 "2007-06-12T21:08:21Z")

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I want to be able to receive emails in RoR.

It seems kind of complicated. Anyone have experience in this?

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**Author:** ![newby](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/n/58956e/32.png) [@newby](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/newby)\
**Post date:** [June 12, 2007, 9:48pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/receive-emails/106652/2 "2007-06-12T21:48:17Z")

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I have an app receiving emails. I followed this howto:

\<[Peak Obsession](http://wiki.rubyonrails.com/rails/pages/)  
HowToReceiveEmailsWithActionMailer\>

The app runs on Mac OS X Server, using its mail server (Postfix).

Fairly straightforward, imo. About the only thing I didn’t learn from  
that howto was to invoke script/runner in the production environment (-  
e switch).

HTH.