[Radiant] Mailer Extension Query on RadiantCMS without A Mailserver.

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John and Sean, sorry for the direct contact but given your in-depth
knowledge of RadiantCMS, I thought you need to see this.

Rainer just replied to my email Mailer Success... with a comment that made
me realise that I have been trying to setup the Mailer Extension *without* a
local mailserver of any kind.

We use Google Apps for our online mail services and have decided not to run
a local mailserver of any kind; less difficulty to administer and more
reliability of service.

Looking through the Radiant Archives, I am unable to find a reference that
states to use the Mailer Extension, you need a local mailserver. If that is
in fact the case, I suggest that a notice stating the same be place at the
commencement of any current or future Mailer Extension documentation.

As I mentioned earlier this week, there does seems to be a Rails/Gmail
specific solution to sending mail, located at http://tinyurl.com/yqzkyy.
However given the slight differences in the directory structure,
particularly the config directory between RadiantCMS and Rails native, any
of these solutions are unlikely to work.

So the question I am now asking, is how do you send email from a web contact
form on a RadiantCMS site to a Gmail/Google Apps account without a local
mailserver of any type?

While it certainly seems that I am the one clearly and publically struggling
with this (5 days this week) at the moment, I am sure that there will be
others, sooner than later who will be asking the exact same question.

I am willing to write up the eventual and successful method and post it to
the Radiant documentation/wiki.

Looking back at my procedures & methodology this week, I cannot believe that
I am so unskilled/obtuse as to not be able to get this correct.

Regards and thanks in advance, 1842759193.