# ActionMailer::Base send via "secure connection"?

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/actionmailer-base-send-via-secure-connection/147451>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [September 2, 2008, 12:46am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/actionmailer-base-send-via-secure-connection/147451 "2008-09-02T00:46:43Z")\
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**Author:** ![mrpete](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/ac91a4/32.png) [@mrpete](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/mrpete)\
**Post date:** [September 2, 2008, 12:46am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/actionmailer-base-send-via-secure-connection/147451/1 "2008-09-02T00:46:43Z")

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I’m using Google Mail SMTP server which requires sending via a secure  
connection.

REF: [Check Gmail through other email platforms - Gmail Help](http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=76147)

Looking at:

> **[ActionMailer::Base](https://api.rubyonrails.org/classes/ActionMailer/Base.html)**
>
> Action Mailer allows you to send email from your application using a mailer model and views. Mailer Models To use Action Mailer, you need to create a mailer model.

:authentication - :cram\_md5… but that doesn’t appear to be the right  
one.

I’ve got my Outlook Express sending and receiving…

→ Question is, can RoR send via a secure connection?

Thanks in advance,  
Pete

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**Author:** ![mrpete](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/ac91a4/32.png) [@mrpete](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/mrpete)\
**Post date:** [September 2, 2008, 11:58am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/actionmailer-base-send-via-secure-connection/147451/2 "2008-09-02T11:58:16Z")

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On 1 Sep 2008, at 23:46, Peter A. wrote:

> :authentication - :cram\_md5… but that doesn’t appear to be the right  
> one.

you don’t need that. What you need is for the whole smtp session to be  
done over TLS/SSL

> I’ve got my Outlook Express sending and receiving…
> 
> –\> Question is, can RoR send via a secure connection?

I think there’s an extra gem, that adds this capability to the  
libraries that actionmailer uses.  
googling for actionmailer ssl should turn up some stuff.

Fred

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**Author:** ![mrpete](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/ac91a4/32.png) [@mrpete](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/mrpete)\
**Post date:** [September 25, 2008, 7:12pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/actionmailer-base-send-via-secure-connection/147451/3 "2008-09-25T19:12:27Z")

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[http://www.rubyinside.com/how-to-use-gmails-smtp-server-with-rails-394.html](http://www.rubyinside.com/how-to-use-gmails-smtp-server-with-rails-394.html)

This is a good solution.