Sending emails

Ruby
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Is there a gem for sending emails?

I want to automate a process for sending emails containing images. I
have it running in perl using Mime::Lite, and I was hoping that there
was something similar in Ruby.

2

have a look at ActionMailer:

look for attachment, this should allow to add images, i guess (didn’t
try it, though)

3

On Fri, 11 Apr 2008 23:24:16 +0900
Thorsten M. [email protected] wrote:

have a look at ActionMailer:
ActionMailer::Base

look for attachment, this should allow to add images, i guess (didn’t
try it, though)

But surely that is a Rails solution, not a Ruby solution?

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On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 10:43 AM, David A. [email protected]
wrote:

On Fri, 11 Apr 2008 23:24:16 +0900
Thorsten M. [email protected] wrote:

have a look at ActionMailer:
ActionMailer::Base

look for attachment, this should allow to add images, i guess (didn’t
try it, though)

But surely that is a Rails solution, not a Ruby solution?

actionmailer is a separate gem like activerecord.

I believe that, like activerecord, it can be used independently of
Rails, although I’ve not done that personally.

–
Rick DeNatale

My blog on Ruby
http://talklikeaduck.denhaven2.com/

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David A. wrote:
| On Fri, 11 Apr 2008 23:24:16 +0900
| Thorsten M. [email protected] wrote:
|
|> have a look at ActionMailer:
|> ActionMailer::Base
|>
|> look for attachment, this should allow to add images, i guess (didn’t
|> try it, though)
|
| But surely that is a Rails solution, not a Ruby solution?
|

No reason that ActonMailer is limited to Eails alone. :wink:

However, I’d cut out the middleman, and go for tmail directly.

Phillip G.
Twitter: twitter.com/cynicalryan

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On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 1:16 PM, Phillip G.
[email protected] wrote:

However, I’d cut out the middleman, and go for tmail directly.

You might also want to look at MailFactory

http://rubyforge.org/projects/mailfactory/

Gordon T.

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Gordon T. wrote:
| On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 1:16 PM, Phillip G.
| [email protected] wrote:
|> However, I’d cut out the middleman, and go for tmail directly.
|>
|
| You might also want to look at MailFactory
|
| http://rubyforge.org/projects/mailfactory/
|
Merb's Mailer is Awesome (if I do say so myself)

Oh, that looks good. Thanks for the tip. :slight_smile:

Phillip G.
Twitter: twitter.com/cynicalryan

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On 11 Apr 2008, at 15:43, David A. wrote:

On Fri, 11 Apr 2008 23:24:16 +0900
Thorsten M. [email protected] wrote:

have a look at ActionMailer:
ActionMailer::Base

look for attachment, this should allow to add images, i guess (didn’t
try it, though)

But surely that is a Rails solution, not a Ruby solution?

How about EventMachine with it’s SmtpClient, I love it :slight_smile: