sending an email with an attachment in ruby

[Matthew Margolis]

I would like to send email from a server running FreeBSD(TextDrive) to
my gmail account to make a weekly backup of my customer's website. The
attachment that I need to be able to send will be a tgz and will be
around 15 MBs. What are my options for constructing and sending this
mail via ruby?

Right now I am using PHPmailer for this job and it just isn't cutting it
now that the attachment is over 10 MBs. I checked out RAA and didn't
find anything that seemed to handle attachments well. Simplemail looked
to be the most promising but it doesn't seem to play nice on my server,
it just sat there eating up lots of resources.



Thank you,
Matthew Margolis

 

[Kirk Haines]

Right now I am using PHPmailer for this job and it just isn't cutting it
now that the attachment is over 10 MBs. I checked out RAA and didn't
find anything that seemed to handle attachments well. Simplemail looked
to be the most promising but it doesn't seem to play nice on my server,
it just sat there eating up lots of resources.

Use tmail. I send multipart MIME mail with it all the time (many hundreds,
daily). I have a class that sits in front of it using Forwardable and
implements some extra help for building multipart email, but it's nothing
terribly tricky. Email me offlist and I'll send you a copy and tell you the
couple of places you'll want to change what I did to make it more general
purpose.

And again, if there might be other interest, I can do the same thing with this
that I offered to do with my Webcache class and make a release seperate from
IOWA out of it as a standalone mini-project.


Kirk Haines

 

[Lyndon Samson]

spawn tar/bzip2/mail might be simplest?

 

[Daniel Kelley]

I would like to send email from a server running FreeBSD(TextDrive) to
my gmail account to make a weekly backup of my customer's website. The
attachment that I need to be able to send will be a tgz and will be
around 15 MBs. What are my options for constructing and sending this
mail via ruby?

I was hopting to show off something clever, but all I use is is 'metasend'.
The code below isn't complete, but it should give you an idea.


#
# Mail the output file as an attachment
#
def mail(addr, subject)

# no point if no address or records generated
if addr.nil? || @contact.length == 0 || @can_mail == false
return false
end

a = addr.split(",")

if a.length < 1
raise "no email addresses"
end

args = [
"-b",
"-S", "4000000",
"-f", @summary_output_file,
"-m", "Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii",
"-n",
"-f", @csv_output_file,
"-m", "application/octet-stream; name=\"#{@csv_output_file}\"",
"-D", @csv_output_file,
"-s", format_timestr(subject),
"-t", a[0]
]
if a.length > 1
args << "-c"
args << a[1..-1].join(",")
end
system("metasend", *args)
end

Pretty boring. But it has worked since February of 2004.

d.k.

 

[Ezra Zygmuntowicz]

Keep in mind that Gmail only allows attachments up to 10Mb in size.
So you will have to split it into 10Mb chunks and send multiple emails.
HTH
-Ezra Zygmuntowicz
WebMaster
Yakima Herald-Republic Newspaper
(e-mail address removed)
509-577-7732

 

[Ezra Zygmuntowicz]

Use tmail. I send multipart MIME mail with it all the time (many
hundreds,
daily). I have a class that sits in front of it using Forwardable and
implements some extra help for building multipart email, but it's
nothing
terribly tricky. Email me offlist and I'll send you a copy and
tell you the
couple of places you'll want to change what I did to make it more
general
purpose.

And again, if there might be other interest, I can do the same
thing with this
that I offered to do with my Webcache class and make a release
seperate from
IOWA out of it as a standalone mini-project.


Kirk Haines

Kirk -
I would be interested to see those classes as a separate
release. If you want you can contact me off list or keep it on list
for other peoples benefit.
Thanks-
-Ezra Zygmuntowicz
WebMaster
Yakima Herald-Republic Newspaper
(e-mail address removed)
509-577-7732

 

[dave]

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Why don't you use tar over ssh or rsync?=20

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here are more things in heaven and earth,

horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy.

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[Matthew Margolis]

Keep in mind that Gmail only allows attachments up to 10Mb in size.
So you will have to split it into 10Mb chunks and send multiple emails.
HTH
-Ezra Zygmuntowicz
WebMaster
Yakima Herald-Republic Newspaper
(e-mail address removed)
509-577-7732

Was this implemented in the last month or two? I have 11MB attachments
that I have sent through gmail.

Thank you,
Matthew Margolis

 

[Matthew Margolis]

Why don't you use tar over ssh or rsync?

I am not quite sure what you are saying here. I am already using tar
via a system call in my ruby script. I don't have a local box that I
can just download the file to as I want to automate the process and I
have a laptop that is not always on. From what I understand rsync
doesn't do incremental backups and this is what I need, a tared file
representing the state of the site every week. And no I can't use
subversion as the client doesn't want restoring the backup to be
dependent on the host at all.

-Matthew Margolis

 

[Matthew Margolis]

Was this implemented in the last month or two? I have 11MB
attachments that I have sent through gmail.

Thank you,
Matthew Margolis

Nevermind I found the blurb on gmail's site. I guess I am going to need
to figure out a new backup system.

-Matthew Margolis

 

[Ezra Zygmuntowicz]

Matthew Margolis wrote:


Nevermind I found the blurb on gmail's site. I guess I am going to
need to figure out a new backup system.

-Matthew Margolis

Mathew-
You can still do this with gmail. You just need to split the
tar.gz file into 10MB chunks. If you are on linux or OSX have a look
at $ man split. You can make the tar.gz backup of the whole htdocs
folder and then run it through split which can split it up into 10Mb
chunks then loop through and attach one chunk to each email until the
whole backup is complete. Then when you need to restore a backup you
just append the chunks together and untar/gzip just like normal. Let
me know how you come along on this script as I could use something
similar. Actually why don't you contact me off list and we can work
together to make this script? I'm sure some poeple would find it
useful and we can post it back to the list here once it is finished.
HTH-
-Ezra Zygmuntowicz
Yakima Herald-Republic
WebMaster
509-577-7732
(e-mail address removed)

 

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|I don't have a local box that I can just download the file to=20
| - I want to automate the process =20
| - I have a laptop that is not always on.
Have you thought to use a rootshell account?

Can you use cookies to automate the process (detect ip) and send backup via=
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ssh?

if (maintainer_visit?() && time_to_backup?() )
tar cj mysitedir | ssh cookie.current_ip "cat > tarball"
end

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here are more things in heaven and earth,

horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy.

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