I am looking for people to share their SMTP setup experiences.  The
assumption here is that I don't run my own mail server that does the
real delivery, but rather its either gmail or something my hosting
company maintains.

There are several ways to go at it each with their issues:

1 - use merb-mailer to connect directly to your external SMTP
server.
pros: simple.
cons: only as robust as your merb process, assumes merb's run_later is
solid.  Also assumes I can use a TLS connect.  Does the latest merb-
mailer support this (that is, gmail).

2 - use merb-mailer to dump the mail into the local sendmail spool
(postfix, preferably). From here, the sendmail deamon connects to my
external service.
pros: robust
cons: complex setup and we only want it used for local forwarding, we
don't need a full-on mail server.  Its a sledgehammer approach.

3 - user merb-mailer to dump to a local spool and have some very
lightweight deamon do the delivery.  pros:  lightwieght and maybe
robust
cons:  not sure which solution to try.

what are your thoughts?  Do you have any config instructions you can
share?

thanks, Jon
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