Keep in mind if you are testing this on your home connection, there is a good chance that your ISP is blocking outgoing SMTP. Make sure to test your code on the server you will be hosting your app on, as it will quite likely work as expected there.
Zack On Dec 31, 2008, at 11:23 AM, Jenny wrote: > > I'm looking through the tutorial: http://wiki.merbivore.com/howto/mailers > using sendmail. > > However, I'm a bit confused. When it says: > > "def contact > send_mail(ContactMailer, :notify, { > :from => '[email protected]', > :to => "[email protected]", > :subject => "Free gym socks. Used!" > }) > " > > What would I put in place of '[email protected]'? Does sendmail > somehow assign me a name? Do I have to attach an existing name (such > as a gmail account) to send mail for this to work? Can I just make > something up and put it there? I used an existing gmail account (all I > did was put it there, no associations or anything, which I don't think > is right) and I got the following message (which seems to indicate > that I did things right, according the the tutorial: > > merb : worker (port 3000) ~ notify_on_event sent to [email protected] > about =?utf-8?Q?Free_gym_socks._Used!?= > > However, no e-mail is showing up at the account I expect it to. > > I know I can hook it up into a gmail account by using a different > configuration, but when I tried to do that, it timed out without doing > anything. At least using sendmail it THINKS it's working. > > Most tutorials I see on sendmail are php based, so I'm at a bit of a > loss here. If anyone has any tips, or sees anything ridiculously wrong > that I'm doing, let me know? > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "merb" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/merb?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
