Help to send email required

Rails
1

From a Rails application containing email addresses I want to send
emails.
Therefore I am testing sending emails.

It does not work though I have read a lot about how to do it. I guess my
…/config/initializers/mail.rb is wrong.

I have based the settings on the answers here but I do not understand
them
fully.

File content:

ActionMailer::Base.smtp_settings = {
address: “smtp.x.y”,
port: 465,
domain: “x.y”
user_name: “me”,
password: “my”,
authentication: :login,
enable_starttls_auto: true
}

This is based on my settings in Thunderbird for outgoing server:

Server Name smtp.x.y
Port 465
User name me
Authentication method Normal password
Connection Security SSL/TLS

The error is reported as

Completed 500 Internal Server Error in 60254ms

Timeout::Error (Timeout::Error):
app/controllers/mail_messages_controller.rb:56:in block in create' app/controllers/mail_messages_controller.rb:54:increate’

OS Ubuntu 12.04
Ruby 1.9.3
Rails 3.2.9

2

mailers/user_mailer.rb
class UserMailer < ActionMailer::Base
default from: “youremailaddress”

  # Subject can be set in your I18n file at config/locales/en.yml
  # with the following lookup:
  #
  # en.user_mailer.password_reset.subject
  #
  def password_reset(user)
    @user = user
    mail :to => user.email, :subject => "Password Reset"
  end
end

config/environment/development.rb

Expands the lines which load the assets

config.assets.debug = true
config.action_mailer.raise_delivery_errors = true
config.action_mailer.perform_deliveries = true
config.action_mailer.default_url_options = { :host => “localhost:3001”
}
config.action_mailer.delivery_method = :smtp
config.action_mailer.smtp_settings = {
:tls => true,
:openssl_verify_mode => OpenSSL::SSL::VERIFY_NONE,
#FAIL_IF_NO_PEER_CERT,
:address => “youremailserver.com”,
:domain => “yourwebsite”,
:port => 465,
:name => ‘youremailaddress’,
:password => ‘accountpassword’,
:authentication => :login,
:enable_starttls_auto => false }

Lubuntu 12.0.4
Ruby 1.9.3
Rails 3.2.11
Thunderbird

Works for me.

3

I tried to set up a different mail account I have. The response was
different “Connection refused - connect(2)”. This is OK, I believe,
because
my ISP does not allow mail relay.

So obviously I get in touch with my ISP but am unable to login. Any
hints?

4

Hi, Sorry I do not know. This also confused me. Try using a name
associated with your email service provider. It should not have
anything
to do with where your app server is running from.

John

5

Hmmm, You really repeat one of the points that make confused -
:domain => “yourwebsite”,

I am running on my client, localhost, and do not have any own web
address,
so what should domain be set to?

6

Problem solved!

Careful inspection of the Thunderbird outgoing server settings revealed
that my mailer smtp.x.y
required the following settings in …/config/initializers/mail.rb:

ActionMailer::Base.smtp_settings = {
…
:enable_starttls_auto => false,
:ssl => true
}

Once this was corrected I got the report that the from field in the mail
had to contain an existing domain.

domain in the smtp_settings is set to x.y where x.y is taken from
address
=> smtp.x.y but I do not know if this of any importance.

Thanks for all hints.