# ActionMailer works for gmail/yahoo, but not for other email addresses...HELP! **URL:** \ **Category:** Rails\ **Created:** [March 17, 2009, 11:04pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/actionmailer-works-for-gmail-yahoo-but-not-for-other-email-addresses-help/163173 "2009-03-17T23:04:28Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![tony](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/ee7513/32.png) [@tony](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/tony)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2009, 11:04pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/actionmailer-works-for-gmail-yahoo-but-not-for-other-email-addresses-help/163173/1 "2009-03-17T23:04:28Z")
I have a rails app that can send emails to gmail, yahoo accounts. But when it comes to more obscure accounts like removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid or removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid, the mail never arrives even though the log shows that the email was sent. Any ideas why this may be happening? I have sent an email directly through the same web server through the command line using mail -s and that worked. Why doesn’t it work through my rails app? here are my configuration settings (mostly default) # Disable delivery errors, bad email addresses will be ignored config.action\_mailer.delivery\_method = :smtp config.action\_mailer.raise\_delivery\_errors = true config.action\_mailer.perform\_deliveries = true config.action\_mailer.default\_charset = “utf-8” config.action\_mailer.smtp\_settings = { :address =\> “localhost”, :port =\> 25, :domain =\> “[my-app.com](http://my-app.com)” } help please! thanks Tony ---
**Author:** ![tony](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/ee7513/32.png) [@tony](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/tony)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2009, 7:36pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/actionmailer-works-for-gmail-yahoo-but-not-for-other-email-addresses-help/163173/2 "2009-03-18T19:36:02Z")
help! anyone?