Setup email in Ruby on Rails using Godaddy/SMTP

Posted on October 13, 2008 by pilotoutlook

This is to help you setup SMTP email using either sendmail or Godaddy in Ruby on Rails. RoR as usual makes it very easy for us to do that.

Open ROOT/config/environment.rb file
For sendmail, add following lines -
ActionMailer::Base.delivery_method = :sendmail
ActionMailer::Base.server_settings = {
:domain  => ‘www.example.com’
}
For Godaddy, add following lines -
ActionMailer::Base.delivery_method = :smtp
ActionMailer::Base.server_settings = {
:address => ’smtpout.secureserver.net’,
:domain  => ‘www.example.com’,
:port      [...]

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Week of technical issues

Posted on May 17, 2008 by pilotoutlook

PilotOutlook.com encountered a week full of technical issues and the site was down for many days large week. This was driven by two changes, which we had done last Friday (5/9/2008).

Apache installation with Open proxy - We had installed Apache and forgot to close Proxy server. Few spammers got an idea of this and exploited [...]

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