# Sending email problem

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/sending-email-problem/167429>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [May 7, 2009, 6:33pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/sending-email-problem/167429 "2009-05-07T18:33:36Z")\
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**Author:** ![kentor](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/k/eb8c5e/32.png) [@kentor](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/kentor)\
**Post date:** [May 7, 2009, 6:33pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/sending-email-problem/167429/1 "2009-05-07T18:33:36Z")

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Hello,

I’m very new to ruby on rails. I’m trying to setup a simple form to  
send an email. I’ve followed many different tutorials and nothing  
seems to work for me… I’ve tried using tls, pony plugin,  
actionmailer, etc… Even sending an email from the cmd prompt would  
be fine… I just want to be able to send anything to my gmail account  
from my localhost environment. Please understand that I am really new  
to ruby on rails… please explain in as much detail as you can. Thanks  
a lot for your help.

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**Author:** ![kentor](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/k/eb8c5e/32.png) [@kentor](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/kentor)\
**Post date:** [May 7, 2009, 6:41pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/sending-email-problem/167429/2 "2009-05-07T18:41:49Z")

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Hey Kentor,

I’d check out the Rails Wiki on sending mail.  
[http://wiki.rubyonrails.org/howtos/mailers](http://wiki.rubyonrails.org/howtos/mailers)

Few questions:  
What platform are you on?  
How do you intended on sending the mail? (Sendmail, smtp?)  
What does “doesn’t work” mean? Are there any errors in your  
development.log file?

Thanks 🙂