I’m having trouble configuring a mailer. Prudence would dictate that
I should upload at least portions of the relevant files, etc. If it
comes to that, I’ll certainly do it. However, before I go that route I
would really like to see if I can’t use this problem to develop some
trouble shooting skills because I know that I’m going to need them in
the future.
Basically the situation is that I have followed the general setup
detailed in ‘Agile Web D. with Rails’. Amongst other things I
have specifically included the line:
config.action_ mailer.delivery_ method=:sendmail
in my config/environments/test.rb file and /usr/sbin/sendmail is a sym
link to my sendmail-compatible smtp server. The single symptom is that
the email doesn’t actually get sent. Otherwise, the whole process
completes exactly as one would expect. There are no indications of
problems logged to either the rails log file or the log file of my
smtp server. The fact that nothing is logged to the log file of my
smtp server makes me believe that it is not actually receiving a
request.
So, my question is this: Given this fact pattern how should I proceed
in order to isolate and correct the problem?
Thanks for any input.
... doug