On Sep 24, 2012, at 9:51 AM, KUL KING wrote: > So I was right that we have to use SMTP to send email. Whether it is from > localhost or gmail. Am I right?
Yes, that acronym stands for Simple Mail Transport Protocol. It's one of the oldest protocols on the Internet -- precedes the Web by tens of years, IIRC. It's how all outgoing mail is sent from one server to another. You may pick up your mail through different protocols (POP3, IMAP) but you always send by SMTP. Rails documentation and API separate sendmail from smtp -- there's a separate :sendmail_settings and :smtp_settings, but you need to understand that they are not mutually exclusive. All outgoing mail is sent through SMTP (the protocol) and the settings in :smtp_settings may specify that sendmail is to be used as the outgoing mail server, in which case you can fine-tune that interface with the :sendmail_settings parameters. Walter > > On Mon, Sep 24, 2012 at 6:49 PM, Walter Lee Davis <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Sep 24, 2012, at 9:14 AM, KUL KING wrote: > > > Doesn't SendMail use SMTP? > > Technically, all outgoing mail is handled by SMTP. That's just the mail > sending protocol. The issue here is whether that SMTP server is localhost > (sendmail or another drop-in replacement for that service, running on the > same machine as Rails) or remote (Gmail or somebody's Exchange server or just > sendmail configured as a relay on another machine). Rails lets you configure > this in any number of different ways. Read the Rails Guide for ActionMailer > for more juicy details. > > Walter > > > > > On Mon, Sep 24, 2012 at 6:11 PM, Fabian Becker <[email protected]> > > wrote: > > Yes it is: > > http://raflabs.com/blogs/silence-is-foo/2011/02/07/configuring-rails-3s-actionmailer-work-sendmail-debian/ > > > > > > On Mon, Sep 24, 2012 at 3:09 PM, KUL KING <[email protected]> wrote: > > No it is not possible. > > > > > > On Mon, Sep 24, 2012 at 6:08 PM, honey ruby <[email protected]> > > wrote: > > Hi all can we send mails with out using SMTP settings. i want to send mails > > with out smtp is it possible? > > > > Thanks in advance > > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > > "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. > > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > [email protected]. > > To view this discussion on the web visit > > https://groups.google.com/d/msg/rubyonrails-talk/-/mMXa9Co-95cJ. > > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > > > > > > > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > > "Ruby on Rails: Talk" 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 https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > > > > > > > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > > "Ruby on Rails: Talk" 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 https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > > > > > > > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > > "Ruby on Rails: Talk" 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 https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > > > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Ruby on Rails: Talk" 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 https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Ruby on Rails: Talk" 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 https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" 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 https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
