# Testing mail server connection?

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/testing-mail-server-connection/187079>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [April 16, 2010, 4:51pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/testing-mail-server-connection/187079 "2010-04-16T16:51:11Z")\
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**Author:** ![tomuhs](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/ecb155/32.png) [@tomuhs](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/tomuhs)\
**Post date:** [April 16, 2010, 4:51pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/testing-mail-server-connection/187079/1 "2010-04-16T16:51:11Z")

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Does anybody know of a way to test that the configured mail server  
connection works? In a similar vein, is there a way to simply test the  
database connection? I use db:migrate for that now but I’d prefer a  
method that simply verifies the connection settings.

Thomas