Sinatra app with mail error

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Hi - I have a strange error at the moment - I have a basic Sinatra app set up and working. I'm trying to get it to send emails through the pony gem. Unfortunately I'm getting a Broken Pipe error. I've traced it down to the Mail gem which is throwing this error in my nginx error log:

sendmail: cannot create temporary file: No such file or diroctory
Errno::EPIPE - Broken pipe

I've stripped out the pony gem and tried to create a mail directly with the Mail gem and I'm getting the same error.

The odd thing is, I can send an email directly using something like:

mail = IO.popopen("/usr/bin/sendmail email@email.com", "w+")
mail.puts("Subject: test message")
mail.puts("\n")
mail.puts("body of email")
mail.flush
mail.close

Anyone have any ideas? Thanks

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Our Rails apps work with a TMPDIR environment variable set to point to a tmp directory within your app directory, like /home/you/webapps/your_app/tmp. Check to see that the directory exists for your app, create it if it does not, and then restart your app and test to see if the problem is solved.

Hope that helps!

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answered 25 May '12, 16:46

seanf
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thanks - took a while to get back to this, but the TMPDIR seems to have done the trick

(26 Jun '12, 02:50) slapthelownote

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