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How can I allow my users to configure their account (created w/ devise) with their smtp server, so they can send & recieve emails in my app?

Drilon Buzuku asked in General

Are there any ruby gems for this specific problem? Or should I just use ActionMailer from Rails? If ActionMailer are there any tutorials on this topic online?

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Hey Drilon,

So sending emails is pretty easy, you can just configure ActionMailer with their credentials, but it's a lot more complex to receive emails in an application. There's a brief mention of that here: http://guides.rubyonrails.org/action_mailer_basics.html#receiving-emails

You can use the mail gem to retrieve emails from a pop server which might be what you want: https://github.com/mikel/mail#getting-emails-from-a-pop-server

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Thanks for your answer and especially your content! Keep it up!

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