# Sending Email from localhost and Dreamhost

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/sending-email-from-localhost-and-dreamhost/106254>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [June 7, 2007, 9:31pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/sending-email-from-localhost-and-dreamhost/106254 "2007-06-07T21:31:22Z")\
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**Author:** ![noob](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/n/5e9695/32.png) [@noob](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/noob)\
**Post date:** [June 7, 2007, 9:31pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/sending-email-from-localhost-and-dreamhost/106254/1 "2007-06-07T21:31:22Z")

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Hi

I am currently developing on my local machine. I also have an account  
with Dreamhost.

However, I trying to send an email from my localhost, using my dreamhost  
smtp account. I followed  
[http://wiki.rubyonrails.org/rails/pages/HowToSendEmailsWithActionMailer](http://wiki.rubyonrails.org/rails/pages/HowToSendEmailsWithActionMailer)  
tutorial, but it’s not working.

Here are my files:

# environment.rb:

ActionMailer::Base.delivery\_method = :sendmail  
ActionMailer::Base.smtp\_settings = {  
:address =\> “[mail.website.com](http://mail.website.com)”,  
:port =\> 25,  
:domain =\> “[website.com](http://website.com)”, # i have also tried [mail.website.com](http://mail.website.com)  
:authentication =\> :login,  
:user\_name =\> “username”,  
:password =\> “password”  
}  
ActionMailer::Base.perform\_deliveries = true  
ActionMailer::Base.raise\_delivery\_errors = true

# WelcomeController.rb

def index  
Notifier.deliver\_signup\_thanks  
end

Can anyone help me out? Does it not work form localhost?

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**Author:** ![noob](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/n/5e9695/32.png) [@noob](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/noob)\
**Post date:** [June 8, 2007, 2:48am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/sending-email-from-localhost-and-dreamhost/106254/2 "2007-06-08T02:48:02Z")

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I had some trouble with this as well, but this came in handy:

[http://wiki.dreamhost.com/ActionMailer](http://wiki.dreamhost.com/ActionMailer)

This is what mine looks like, but it is specific for sending emails  
from a subdomain:

# Include your application configuration below

ActionMailer::Base.server\_settings = {  
:address =\> “[mail.domain.com](http://mail.domain.com)”,  
:port =\> 25,  
:domain =\> ‘[subdomain.domain.com](http://subdomain.domain.com)’,  
:user\_name =\> “m1234567”,  
:password =\> “password”,  
:authentication =\> :login  
}

On 6/7/07, Noob [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote:

> :user\_name =\> “username”,
> 
> Can anyone help me out? Does it not work form localhost?
> 
> –  
> Posted via [http://www.ruby-forum.com/](http://www.ruby-forum.com/).
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> >

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