Check out http://wanlord.com/articles/2007/11/29/sending-email-using-actionmailer-and-gmail
First, I'm sorry if I'm repeating much, but I'll give you everything I've got. I'm not sure what's happening on your end, but here's what I have. The following is in lib/smtp_tls.rb:
require "openssl" require "net/smtp"
Net::SMTP.class_eval do private def do_start(helodomain, user, secret, authtype) raise IOError, 'SMTP session already started' if @started check_auth_args user, secret, authtype if user or secret
sock = timeout(@open_timeout) { TCPSocket.open(@address, @port) } @socket = Net::InternetMessageIO.new(sock) @socket.read_timeout = 60 #@read_timeout
check_response(critical { recv_response() }) do_helo(helodomain)
if starttls raise 'openssl library not installed' unless defined?(OpenSSL) ssl = OpenSSL::SSL::SSLSocket.new(sock) ssl.sync_close = true ssl.connect @socket = Net::InternetMessageIO.new(ssl) @socket.read_timeout = 60 #@read_timeout do_helo(helodomain) end
authenticate user, secret, authtype if user @started = true ensure unless @started # authentication failed, cancel connection. @socket.close if not @started and @socket and not @socket.closed? @socket = nil end end
def do_helo(helodomain) begin if @esmtp ehlo helodomain else helo helodomain end rescue Net::ProtocolError if @esmtp @esmtp = false @error_occured = false retry end raise end end
def starttls getok('STARTTLS') rescue return false return true end
def quit begin getok('QUIT') rescue EOFError end end end
Toward the top of my config/environment.rb file, I have:
require 'smtp_tls'
In the Rails::Initializer.run do |config| block, I have:
config.action_mailer.delivery_method = :smtp config.action_mailer.perform_deliveries = true config.action_mailer.raise_delivery_errors = true config.action_mailer.default_charset = 'utf-8'
At the bottom of that same file, I have:
ActionMailer::Base.smtp_settings = { :address => "smtp.gmail.com", :port => 587, :authentication => :plain, :user_name => 'email@mydomain.com', :password => 'pass' }
I think that's everything in my app dealing with email settings. Have you been able to get it working with sendmail first? Maybe there's something elsewhere in your app? I haven't used mailer.yml - perhaps the "old-fashioned" way would work for you?
-Kyle
