title: Can a rails application send emails from the local host?
body: <p>I think I've set up ActionMailer successfully, however emails do not arrive in their inbox, despite the server stating differently:</p>
  
  <pre><code>Sent mail to julian@designimperial.com (2003ms)
  Date: Fri, 30 Aug 2013 22:26:41 +0100
  From: from@example.com
  To: julian@gmail.com
  Message-ID: &lt;52210e11bedc9_16501d84f64257a@Julian-PC.mail&gt;
  Subject: Welcome to my awesome site!
  Mime-Version: 1.0
  Content-Type: text/html;
   charset=UTF-8
  Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
  
  &lt;!DOCTYPE html&gt;
  &lt;html&gt;
    &lt;head&gt;
      &lt;meta content='text/html; charset=UTF-8' http-equiv='Content-Type' /&gt;
    &lt;/head&gt;
    &lt;body&gt;
      &lt;h1&gt;Welcome to example.com, Julian&lt;/h1&gt;
      &lt;p&gt;
        You have successfully signed up to example.com,
        your username is: gogo.&lt;br/&gt;
      &lt;/p&gt;
      &lt;p&gt;
        To login to the site, just follow this link: http://example.com/login.
      &lt;/p&gt;
      &lt;p&gt;Thanks for joining and have a great day!&lt;/p&gt;
    &lt;/body&gt;
  &lt;/html&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Do I need to upload my rails application to a server or heroku inorder for emails to be sent? I know this is the case with PHP mailing and MAMP/XAMPP</p>