Still cant get ActionMailer to work!

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Hey - can anyone spare a few minutes to explain how to set-up actionmailer in Rails 2.2.2 I have read the API but still not sure if I'm changing the correct file? I am going nuts with this!

Do I add my smtp settings to environment.rb or edit them in base.rb in the actionmailer folder?

The error message I receive when trying to send emails is

SocketError: getaddrinfo: Name or service not known

If anyone can spare a few mins either on this thread or on MSN/Skype/ Google chat I would really appreciate it

Ta

Gavin

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What mail do you need to setup? Gmail smtp? or a host provided mail?

In my case i use this in envirotment.rb ActionMailer::Base.raise_delivery_errors = true ActionMailer::Base.perform_deliveries = true ActionMailer::Base.delivery_method = :smtp ActionMailer::Base.smtp_settings = { :address => “smtp.gmail.com”, :port => “587”, :domain => “domain.com”, :authentication => :plain, :user_name => “user@domaincom”, :password => “password” }

And i generate the mail controller with:

ruby script/generate mailer Notifier

Notifier is the controller to send mails.

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Hi - It's a host provided mail account:

my host is 600host.net my domain is thinkersplayground.com and the email is noreply@thinkersplayground.com

I tried adding the code you provided in my environment.rb (I did have it in prodcution.rb) and I now get an error:

...s/config/environment.rb:13:NameError: uninitialized constant ActionMailer

The code I added was: ActionMailer::Base.raise_delivery_errors = true ActionMailer::Base.perform_deliveries = true ActionMailer::Base.delivery_method = :smtp ActionMailer::Base.smtp_settings = {     :address => "localhost",     :port => 465,     :domain => "thinkersplayground.com",     :authentication => :login,     :user_name => "noreply+thinkersplayground.com",     :password => "password" }

Any clues?

Should this be config.action_mailer.smtp_settings = {} instead?

thanks

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Hi --

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Thanks David

I've moved the code to the bottom of the file and that seems to have solved the recent error.

Still have the error: SocketError: getaddrinfo: Name or service not known When trying to send mail though, any thoughts?

Im a noob when it comes to SSL etc, is it possible this error is simply because my smtp settings are wrong?

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According to my host's setup instructions:

Mail Server Username: noreply+thinkersplayground.com Outgoing Mail Server: mail.thinkersplayground.com (server requires authentication) port 25 Outgoing Mail Server: (SSL) server.600host.net (server requires authentication) port 465 Supported Outgoing Mail Protocols: SMTP, SMTPS (SSL/TLS)

If actionmailer requires SSL then does that mean I need to set smtp settings to:     :address => "server.600host.net",     :port => 465,     :domain => "thinkersplayground.com",     :authentication => :login,     :user_name => "noreply+thinkersplayground.com",     :password => "password"

?

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If I change :address => '127.0.0.1' and :port => 25, I get error message:

OpenSSL::SSL::SSLError: hostname was not match with the server certificate

If I set it to :port => 465 I get a timeout error.

any ideas?

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your host service provide the port to connect to the mail with ssl. Your need to ask them what port do you need to setup.

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This may seem like a real nooby question but it just occurred to me now, do I need to buy an SSL certificate before I can use actionmailer?

:S