So I was tired of doing different stuff to test email configuration on my many environments so I came up with this simple Rake task to send me a test email.

Include it on your Gemfile

gem 'hello_mail'

And then run:

bundler install

Nope, this gem is just for Rails 3

Simply run the rake task passing the destination mail address as a parameter, for example:

rake hello_mail:deliver[david@crowdint.com]

If your mail configuration works, you shall receive a message immediately.

Be careful if you have different environments configured on your server. If you run your app in production mode, then you should run the rake task as:

RAILS_ENV=production rake hello_mail:deliver[david@crowdint.com]

That's it!

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