zendesk-ar_mailer
I ended up using zendesk’s version of ar_mailer . It’s more verbose, has it’s own log file and able to maintain pid file. Monit have been guarding it for 2 days so far, and didn’t report any memory leaks or excessive cpu usage. I like when it’s not talkative. Small problem though is that ar_mailer consumes 50mb of ram. hmm..
March 23, 2009 at 2:49 PM
I didn't have 50 megs to spare on my VPS, so I took the perl route for my gmailing needs. This script uses about 12mb: http://challonge.com/ar_gmailer
Feel free to mod it as it was written quickly to fit my scenario. Hopefully ar_mailer will slim up in the future.