Comments on: Sending mail from Rails through Google SMTP

By: The Links Have Built Up…Link Dump Time! « IS Department

The Links Have Built Up…Link Dump Time! « IS Department — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 04:52:44 +0000

[...] Sending mail through gmail with Rails – Seems useful for some future home project [...]

By: topfunky

topfunky — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 00:42:38 +0000

Sending large quantites of email will indeed slow down your Rails application, even if the mail server is local. I use ar_mailer to send mail asynchronously.

http://blog.segment7.net/articles/2006/08/15/ar_mailer

By: mikehale

mikehale — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 02:06:19 +0000

I’m curious if sending mail through a non local mail server would slow down your rails app. Would it reduce blocking to hand off outgoing mail to a local postfix and have postfix send the mail on to the non-local mail relay? Obviously keeping all the code and configuration in rails keeps things simpler and makes for a much easier deployment.

By: topfunky

topfunky — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 18:41:14 +0000

Because I’ve received several emails in reply to my previous comment, I should mention that the service I use is AuthSMTP:

http://authsmtp.com/

It’s quite affordable and has worked reliably from ActionMailer for the past few months that I’ve been using it.

By: A Fresh Cup » Blog Archive » Double Shot #228

A Fresh Cup » Blog Archive » Double Shot #228 — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 10:17:46 +0000

[...] Sending Mail from Rails Through Google SMTP – I may need to know this some day. [...]

By: topfunky

topfunky — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 18:15:41 +0000

Just remember that Google limits you to 500 outgoing emails per day.

Worries of running over the quota used to keep me up at night, so now I use a third party service for outgoing email. I still use Google for incoming mail.