Rails - Nov 2009 - getaddrinfo: nodename nor servname provided, or not known

Hi there,

If I want to create email within my application (in production), how
is this best achieved??

Following the railsspace tutorial, it only really suggests to
use :smtp.

I''d read on another site that to generate emails locally, i need to
use :sendmail instead... However - I havent seen any decent examples
of how to get this configured to be able to send emails within my
local area.

Within my email_controller I have the following code:
  def remind
    @title = "Send me my login information"
    if param_posted?(:user)
      email = params[:user][:email]
      user = User.find_by_email(email)
      if user
      UserMailer.deliver_reminder(user)
      flash[:notice] = "Login information was sent."
      redirect_to :action => "index", :controller =>
"site"
      else
      flash[:notice] = "There is no user with that email address."
      end
      end

In environment.rb I have:
ActionMailer::Base.delivery_method = :sendmail

and at the top of the same file I have:
ENV[''RAILS_ENV''] ||= ''production''

When I try and enter an email address into the form:
I tget an error back:

SocketError in EmailController#remind
getaddrinfo: nodename nor servname provided, or not known


Has anyone else experienced this, and how do you get it up and
running?
Many Thanks

On Nov 11, 8:02 pm, RubyonRails_newbie
<craigwest...-gM/Ye1E23mwN+BqQ9rBEUg@public.gmane.org>
wrote:
> In environment.rb I have:
> ActionMailer::Base.delivery_method = :sendmail
>
> and at the top of the same file I have:
> ENV[''RAILS_ENV''] ||= ''production''
>
> When I try and enter an email address into the form:
> I tget an error back:
>
> SocketError in EmailController#remind
> getaddrinfo: nodename nor servname provided, or not known
That sounds like it''s still trying to use smtp (but without a valid
smtp server). Did you restart the app after changing this ? With
sendmail you just need to tell rails where sendmail is (and even then
only if sendmail isn''t where rails expects to find it).

Fred
>
> Has anyone else experienced this, and how do you get it up and
> running?
> Many Thanks