README.txt in adzap-ar_mailer-1.4.1 vs README.txt in adzap-ar_mailer-1.4.2

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@@ -8,32 +8,48 @@ Documentation: http://seattlerb.org/ar_mailer +and for forked additions + +http://github.com/adzap/ar_mailer/wikis + Bugs: http://rubyforge.org/tracker/?func=add&group_id=1513&atid=5921 == About Even delivering email to the local machine may take too long when you have to send hundreds of messages. ar_mailer allows you to store messages into the database for later delivery by a separate process, ar_sendmail. -== Installing ar_mailer +== Installing ar_mailer (forked) -Just install the gem: +Install the gem from GitHub gems server: - $ sudo gem install ar_mailer +First, if you haven't already + $ sudo gem sources -a http://gems.github.com + +Then + + $ sudo gem install adzap-ar_mailer + See ActionMailer::ARMailer for instructions on converting to ARMailer. See ar_sendmail -h for options to ar_sendmail. NOTE: You may need to delete an smtp_tls.rb file if you have one lying around. ar_mailer supplies it own. -=== ar_sendmail on FreeBSD or NetBSD +=== init.d/rc.d scripts -An rc.d script is included in share/ar_sendmail. +For Linux both script and demo config files are in share/linux. +See ar_sendmail.conf for setting up your config. Copy the ar_sendmail file +to /etc/init.d/ and make it executable. Then for Debian based distros run +'sudo update-rc.d ar_sendmail defaults' and it should work. Make sure you have +the config file /etc/ar_sendmail.conf in place before starting. +For FreeBSD or NetBSD script is share/bsd/ar_sendmail. This is old and does not +support the config file unless someone wants to submit a patch.