How to send emails from ruby using a gmail account, for example?

Question

Hi,

I'm kind of new at ruby on rails, and I've read many tutorials about this, but I still can't figure out what's wrong.

I already set up the environment.rb with the following lines at the bottom:

ActionMailer::Base.delivery_method = :smtp

ActionMailer::Base.default_content_type = "text/html"

ActionMailer::Base.smtp_settings = {
  :address        => 'smtp.gmail.com',
  :port           => 25,
  :domain         => 'gmail.com',
  :authentication => :login,
  :user_name      => '[email protected]',
  :password       => 'mypassword'
}

Then, I've got some code that came with the baseApp I'm using, and it does the following:

UserMailer.deliver_forgot_password(self)

Where self is the user object, that contains the email, login, etc.

That method(which belongs to the UserMailer class) has the following code:

  def forgot_password(user)
    setup_email(user)
    @subject += "Forgotten password instructions"
    #{user.password_reset_code}
    @body[:url]  = "http://#{Setting.get(:site_url)}/users/reset_password/#"

  end

protected
    def setup_email(user)
      @recipients  = "#{user.email}"
      @from        = "#{Setting.get(:support_name)} <#{Setting.get(:support_email)}>"
      @subject     = "[#{Setting.get(:site_name)}] "
      @sent_on     = Time.now
      @body[:user] = user

      # Get Settings
      [:site_name, :company_name, :support_email, :support_name].each do |id|
        @body[id] = Setting.get(id)
      end
    end

Well, the emails are fine, I've already checked them doing raise inspect, but it's not sending...and it doesn't throw me an exception either.

Now I'm getting Errno::ECONNREFUSED error when trying to send an email. What's wrong now?

Thanks, Brian

Answer 1

Gmail port should be 587 or 465.

and add

:tls => true,

Do you have the ActionMailerTLS Gem installed ?

Answer 2

The new way of doing this as of rails 2.3.2 is

:enable_starttls_auto => true

No need for additional plugins.

Answer 3

On my Mac, I had to turn on postfix to get emails to send. Maybe you don't have a similar mail program turned on capable of sending emails. What that is for Windows 7, I do not know.