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

[Jim Gay]

Are you able to send mail from any other rails app?

The mailer extension (as far as I know) does nothing special in  
sending mail and your settings in your environment should be the same  
as those that you use in any other rails app.

I have another app where I use a gmail account to test my  
notifications and this is what I have:

config.action_mailer.delivery_method = :smtp
config.action_mailer.smtp_settings = {
   :address => "smtp.gmail.com",
   :port => "587",
   :authentication => :plain,
   :user_name => "myaddress at gmail.com",
   :password => "mypassword"
}

What are your action_mailer settings?

On Mar 8, 2008, at 6:45 AM, 1842759193 wrote:

> 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.
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