<h2>Introduction</h2> <p>Hooking up the email dispatch for Reminders is quite simple. The only problem is that the mechanism for dispatching the emails to to <span class="caps">SMTP</span> or Sendmail (or whatever you use) is undefined, so you need to implement that part yourself.</p> <p>Generally, you’ll want to make a cron script which in essence runs the following:</p> <pre><code> script/runner -e production "Reminder.dispatch_and_clean()" </code></pre> <p>I suggest looking at the configuration section in <a href="http://wiki.rubyonrails.com/rails/pages/HowToSendEmailsWithActionMailer">HowToSendEmailsWithActionMailer</a> on the rails wiki for configuring ActionMailer.</p> <p>An example is as follows, which should be placed in &#8220;config/app_config.yml&#8221; :</p> <pre> <code> email: delivery: smtp # For SMTP smtp: address: localhost domain: localhost username: myuser password: mypass authentication: login # For sendmail sendmail: location: "/usr/sbin/sendmail" arguments: "-t -t" </code> </pre> <h2>How the Reminders work</h2> <p>Every time <code>Reminder.dispatch_and_clean()</code> is called, RuckSack does the following:</p> <ul> <li>Deletes reminders which have expired (i.e. have been sent and are more than 2 days old)</li> <li>Sends reminders via email which are due</li> <li>Re-schedules reminders which are repeatable</li> </ul> <p>As you may have noticed before, reminders that are more than a day old are not included in the reminders list in the web interface. Consequently, if you make a load of reminders and don&#8217;t dispatch them, they will pile up. When you come to send them, they will all be sent &#8211; so beware!</p> 2008-10-23T02:53:52-07:00 71123 hooking-up-email-for-reminders 37011 2008-11-02T06:27:05-08:00 10850