ActionMailer in standalone apps

Today someone in #ruby-lang asked if you could use Rails' ActionMailer also in standalone ruby applications. That user left after a short time and the question stayed unanswered, although it is my opinion quite interesting :) So I started digging a little bit through the documentation and came up with a quite basic solution which actually holds no real suprises.

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