how to receive emails from a ruby on rails app

Question

i am in dead end! i am trying to make an app to receive emails on hotmail! i created a method and i am getting an error and no email receiving..

in my method:

class Recivemail < ActiveRecord::Base
  attr_accessible :content, :from, :subject

 def sendmail(content,from,subject)
    subject = 'subject'
    recipients = "linkinpark_8884@hotmail.com"
    from = 'from'
    sent_on = Time.now
  end 
end

in config>enviroments>development.rb

 config.action_mailer.delivery_method = :smtp
  config.action_mailer.smtp_settings ={
    :enable_starttls_auto => true,
    :address => 'smtp.hotmail.com',
    :port => 587,
    :authentication => :plain,
    :domain => 'localhost:3000',
    :user_name => 'linkinpark_8884@hotmail.com',
    :password => 'mypass'

  }

in views>recivemails>show

<%=@recivemail.sendmail(@recivemail.from,@recivemail.subject,@recivemail.content)%>

everything seems to working correct except that i am not getting any email any ideas??

Answer 1

@recivemail.send(@recivemail.from,@recivemail.subject,@recivemail.content)

The send method in Ruby means "send a message to this object" (as-in call the method that is named by the first parameter to send ). What you're doing here is trying call a method named by the value of @recivemail.from to the object @recivemail .

http://ruby-doc.org/core-1.9.3/Object.html#method-i-send

In your code, the method is named sendmail not send anyway.

(I would not put this into a view either, but that seems to be the least of your troubles right now.)

As for your original question about receiving emails in general, start with this article . It was written several years ago, but should give you some ideas.