# Connection Refused

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/connection-refused/88851>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [March 15, 2007, 12:25am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/connection-refused/88851 "2007-03-15T00:25:40Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![learc](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/l/e5b9ba/32.png) [@learc](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/learc)\
**Post date:** [March 15, 2007, 12:25am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/connection-refused/88851/1 "2007-03-15T00:25:40Z")

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Mailer works fine when I’m running my app locally. But when I deploy  
it I keep getting this error in the log.

Errno::ECONNREFUSED (Connection refused - connect(2)):

Anyone have any idea what this could be?

Thank in advance,  
Seth

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**Author:** ![learc](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/l/e5b9ba/32.png) [@learc](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/learc)\
**Post date:** [March 15, 2007, 6:24am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/connection-refused/88851/2 "2007-03-15T06:24:12Z")

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Did you specify your production database configuration in config/  
database.yml?

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**Author:** ![learc](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/l/e5b9ba/32.png) [@learc](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/learc)\
**Post date:** [March 15, 2007, 4:22pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/connection-refused/88851/3 "2007-03-15T16:22:41Z")

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Are you using sendmail or smtp?

RSL