Question

In my rails application (running on a mac), I’m using a gem called pony. When I create a message through pony I get the following output (out of a rails console).

#<Mail::Message:2186559360, Multipart: false, Headers: <Date: Tue, 13 Dec 2011 00:15:14 -0500>, <From: [e-mail]>, <To: [e-mail]>, <Message-ID: <[e-mail]>>, <Subject: nothing>, <Mime-Version: 1.0>, <Content-Type: text/plain>, <Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit>>

This message sends without problem.

For a separate application, running on Ubuntu, pony throws me errors.

I didn’t post the errors, because I switched to a gem called mail which gives the same output after sending a message (no errors, the console says it sent fine). But the problem is that no message get sent on the Ubuntu system.

I suspect it’s because I’ve never set up a mailing system on the Ubuntu system (if that’s an action that ever needs to be done in the programming world). If it is, I’m not sure how I should do this, so that my mail will get sent.

I’m using rails 3 and Ubuntu Oneiric Ocelot.

Answer 1

Go to ubuntu software center. Search for

mail agent

(what you need is a mail transfer agent)

now something called ‘mutt’ should be there. Install it. (it worked for me when i had this problem)