# Sending email on Windows

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/sending-email-on-windows/57233>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [April 8, 2006, 7:07am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/sending-email-on-windows/57233 "2006-04-08T07:07:08Z")\
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**Author:** ![Chinmay\_K](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/77aa72/32.png) [@Chinmay\_K](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Chinmay_K)\
**Post date:** [April 8, 2006, 7:07am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/sending-email-on-windows/57233/1 "2006-04-08T07:07:08Z")

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Hi!

I’m developing a different kind of Rails app. It’s an email client  
\*built on RoR \*which users can download and use. It’ll look and feel  
like a standard webapp, except that the server will be run locally  
(maybe webbrick)… Basically, the idea is that:

```
* Web based apps are easier to upgrade, use etc.
* But people need to have their email and other stuff on the hard
  drive, so that it is easier to refer to, etc

```

The problem I’m facing is that I can’t find any _libraries/resources to  
send/receive email from POP in Rails_. The catch here is that the app is  
meant to be /deployed/ on Windows, not just tested, and that I can’t  
include any dependencies outside my app - so no sendmail equivalents  
etc. (My plan is making it something like InstantRails, so users just  
have to unzip and start using).

Any help is appreciated.

–  
Yours,  
Chinmay

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**Author:** ![Chinmay\_K](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/77aa72/32.png) [@Chinmay\_K](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Chinmay_K)\
**Post date:** [April 8, 2006, 7:10am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/sending-email-on-windows/57233/2 "2006-04-08T07:10:10Z")

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This is just a guess but I’d imagine you want to look for some Ruby  
library that can deal with POP.

Peter

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**Author:** ![Chinmay\_K](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/77aa72/32.png) [@Chinmay\_K](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Chinmay_K)\
**Post date:** [April 8, 2006, 8:13am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/sending-email-on-windows/57233/3 "2006-04-08T08:13:07Z")

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POP doesn’t send mail. It retrieves it. SMTP sends it. ActionMailer can  
handle all the sending. You’ll want the user to be able to configure the  
application with their SMTP server info.

Not to discourage you or anything, but how is this different from taking  
any of the dozens of free/open-source webmail apps that already exist  
and packaging and preconfiguring it with a bundled webserver for use on  
a local PC?

Chinmay K. wrote:

> Hi!
> 
> I’m developing a different kind of Rails app. It’s an email client  
> \*built on RoR \*which users can download and use. It’ll look and feel  
> like a standard webapp, except that the server will be run locally  
> (maybe webbrick)… Basically, the idea is that:
> 
> ```
> * Web based apps are easier to upgrade, use etc.
> * But people need to have their email and other stuff on the hard
> drive, so that it is easier to refer to, etc
> 
> ```
> 
> The problem I’m facing is that I can’t find any _libraries/resources to  
> send/receive email from POP in Rails_. The catch here is that the app is  
> meant to be /deployed/ on Windows, not just tested, and that I can’t  
> include any dependencies outside my app - so no sendmail equivalents  
> etc. (My plan is making it something like InstantRails, so users just  
> have to unzip and start using).
> 
> Any help is appreciated.
> 
> –  
> Yours,  
> Chinmay