From: Ezra Zygmuntowicz <ezra@...>
Date: 2005-08-08T14:28:28+09:00
Subject: Re: sending an email with an attachment in ruby


On Aug 7, 2005, at 3:05 PM, Kirk Haines wrote:

> On Sunday 07 August 2005 3:35 pm, Matthew Margolis wrote:
>
>
>> Right now I am using PHPmailer for this job and it just isn't  
>> cutting it
>> now that the attachment is over 10 MBs.  I checked out RAA and didn't
>> find anything that seemed to handle attachments well.  Simplemail  
>> looked
>> to be the most promising but it doesn't seem to play nice on my  
>> server,
>> it just sat there eating up lots of resources.
>>
>
> Use tmail.  I send multipart MIME mail with it all the time (many  
> hundreds,
> daily).  I have a class that sits in front of it using Forwardable and
> implements some extra help for building multipart email, but it's  
> nothing
> terribly tricky.  Email me offlist and I'll send you a copy and  
> tell you the
> couple of places you'll want to change what I did to make it more  
> general
> purpose.
>
> And again, if there might be other interest, I can do the same  
> thing with this
> that I offered to do with my Webcache class and make a release  
> seperate from
> IOWA out of it as a standalone mini-project.
>
>
> Kirk Haines
>
Kirk -
     I would be interested to see those classes as a separate  
release. If you want you can contact me off list or keep it on list  
for other peoples benefit.
Thanks-
-Ezra Zygmuntowicz
WebMaster
Yakima Herald-Republic Newspaper
ezra@yakima-herald.com
509-577-7732