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In this week’s screencast, I take you through a tour of the new ActionMailer features in the context of a live application. Read on after the screencast for more in-depth information on the topics covered in the screencast. Behind the Scenes The biggest change (and in fact the change that...

Action Mailer has been rewritten for Rails 3 providing a much cleaner API with its use of the Mail gem.

GNUS is a great news reader built into Emacs. I've had some requests to do an episode on how to read mail from a Google Gmail account with it, so here it is. I had the easiest time getting it all to work on Ubuntu 9.10, but as long as...

Mutt is a great text-based email client I've been using recently. Mutt is very simple to use but still highly configurable. In this episode we will configure Mutt to use Gmail's IMAP interface to retrieve our email from Gmail. Check out the Mutt Wiki for lots of great info and...

By Lars Pinds of CoachTVBlog. Email is both an indispensable and an inescapable part of our lives. Yet most of us either feel dread when checking email, or we use email as a distraction from more important tasks. In this 45 minute presentation, accomplished entrepreneur and life coach Lars Pind...

You know those invitation systems where a given user can invite a number of other people to join? That's what I show you how to make in this episode.

Previously called MMS2R Web applications become much more useful when powered by the oldest communication technology on the Internet: email. This 60 page PDF shows how to use the MMS2R RubyGem to receive and parse email from both desktop clients and mobile devices. You’ll learn about:

This is a brief guide to sending email in Rails. See how to configure the environment, generate a mailer, create a template, and deliver the mail.