Help to send email required

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From a Rails application containing email addresses I want to send emails. Therefore I am testing sending emails.

It does not work though I have read a lot about how to do it. I guess my …/config/initializers/mail.rb is wrong.

I have based the settings on the answers here but I do not understand them fully.

File content:

ActionMailer::Base.smtp_settings = { address: “smtp.x.y”, port: 465, domain: “x.y” user_name: “me”, password: “my”, authentication: :login, enable_starttls_auto: true }

This is based on my settings in Thunderbird for outgoing server:

Server Name smtp.x.y Port 465 User name me Authentication method Normal password Connection Security SSL/TLS

The error is reported as

Completed 500 Internal Server Error in 60254ms

Timeout::Error (Timeout::Error): app/controllers/mail_messages_controller.rb:56:in block in create' app/controllers/mail_messages_controller.rb:54:in create’

OS Ubuntu 12.04 Ruby 1.9.3 Rails 3.2.9

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mailers/user_mailer.rb class UserMailer < ActionMailer::Base default from: “youremailaddress”

  # Subject can be set in your I18n file at config/locales/en.yml
  # with the following lookup:
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Hmmm, You really repeat one of the points that make confused - :domain => “yourwebsite”,

I am running on my client, localhost, and do not have any own web address, so what should domain be set to?

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Hi, Sorry I do not know. This also confused me. Try using a name associated with your email service provider. It should not have anything to do with where your app server is running from.

John

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I tried to set up a different mail account I have. The response was different “Connection refused - connect(2)”. This is OK, I believe, because my ISP does not allow mail relay.

So obviously I get in touch with my ISP but am unable to login. Any hints?

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Problem solved!

Careful inspection of the Thunderbird outgoing server settings revealed that my mailer smtp.x.y required the following settings in …/config/initializers/mail.rb:

ActionMailer::Base.smtp_settings = { … :enable_starttls_auto => false, :ssl => true }

Once this was corrected I got the report that the from field in the mail had to contain an existing domain.

domain in the smtp_settings is set to x.y where x.y is taken from address => smtp.x.y but I do not know if this of any importance.

Thanks for all hints.