[LRUG] newsletter in rails

[Levent Ali]

Matthew Rudy Jacobs, do you have any insight on simple elegant queuing
solutions that may help them out with this?



On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 7:39 PM, Andrew McDonough
<andrew at andrewmcdonough.co.uk> wrote:
> 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
>>>
>>>
>>>
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>>> 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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