ActionMailer Fails To Send Emails Post Authentication

I am trying to send emails via actionmailer.

It was working fine before and now suddenly what was working is no longer working!

I have one version of the application running in production and whenever I try to run it in production I get the error No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it. - connect(2) (see details in the attached text file)

Now when I try to run the same application on the local machine (Dev) with a local mail server running on it I get the error :

Net::SMTPAuthenticationError in AccessrequestsController#create 535 Authentication Failed (see details in the text file attached).

The actionmailer settings for production are : ActionMailer::Base.smtp_settings = { :address => "localhost", :port => 25, :domain => "letter4sure.com", :authentication => :login, :user_name => "CHECKED_THIS_ADMIN_USER/PWD_IT_WORKS", :password => "CHECKED_THIS_ADMIN_USER/PWD_IT_WORKS" }

For the local machine it is :

ActionMailer::Base.smtp_settings = { :address => "localhost", :port => 25, :domain => "localhost", :authentication => :login, :user_name => "CHECKED_THIS_ADMIN_USER/PWD_IT_WORKS", :password => "CHECKED_THIS_ADMIN_USER/PWD_IT_WORKS" }

When I remove all authentication user name and password information I can send emails beautifully but that is BAD! because my mail server could be used as a relaying station. That is unacceptable. So help would be appreciated in deciphering the mysteries of ActionMailer please.

Ok I figured out the problem or atleast I think I did. I have to create a separate account with user and password (NOT admin) that can send emails. then the following works ... atleast for now.

Ather Shiraz wrote: