[LRUG] newsletter in rails

[Andrew McDonough]

Andrea,

I'm afraid I don't know of any open source ruby mailers.  I thought I
should offer a few pieces of advice though, as building your own isn't
quite as simple as it first appears.  Firstly, unless you are only
sending one or two emails, you really need to consider queueing the
pending mails and process this in the background.  We use
Backgroundjob to do this, but there are quite a few others you can
choose from.  I found Andrew Stewart's LRUG talk very useful for this.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=5044315308846114666

You also need to be aware that if you use your own server to deliver
mail, you could end up being blacklisted by some ISPs. You also can't
really guarantee all will get through.  We particularly have problems
getting email to AOL addresses.  If you care about making sure email
gets through, you can use a third party provider like authsmtp.com.
There's a post on this here:

http://dynamite.errfree.com/posts/75-guaranteeing-email-delivery

Hope that helps,

Andrew


2008/7/23 Andrea (Q) <q at ptumpa.com>:
> I think that it's not so complicated, I don't have time to develop it now,
> anyway if i'll not find anything i will develop my own app, i just need a
> form to send the messages and a history of that. it's a small app but if
> anybody know a good and free system it's better :D
>
> Cheers
> Andrea
>
> On Jul 23, 2008, at 5:30 AM, Satish N Kota wrote:
>
>> Hey Andrea,
>>
>> We are building one for one of our client. Though we haven't built it
>> completely yet and the development is in progress...I could help you with
>> your questions and answers.
>>
>> Let me know any issues and we can provide you the same...
>>
>> Regards
>> Satish N Kota
>> Director, Heurion Consulting
>> Stoke-on-Trent, UK
>> Bangalore, India
>> www.heurionconsulting.com
>>
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: chat-bounces at lists.lrug.org [mailto:chat-bounces at lists.lrug.org] On
>> Behalf Of Andrea (Q)
>> Sent: Tuesday, July 22, 2008 11:37 PM
>> To: London Ruby Users Group
>> Subject: [LRUG] newsletter in rails
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> anybody know a rails app to manage newsletter?
>>
>> Andrea
>>
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