# Sending mail through gmail **URL:** \ **Category:** Ruby\ **Created:** [July 6, 2006, 2:50am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/sending-mail-through-gmail/97282 "2006-07-06T02:50:24Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![the-companion](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/e47774/32.png) [@the-companion](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/the-companion)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2006, 2:50am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/sending-mail-through-gmail/97282/1 "2006-07-06T02:50:24Z")
Hi. Could someone give me an example of how to send mail through a gmail account using the Ruby Net::SMTP class? Park H.'s gmailer library doesn’t work for me. Thanks ---
**Author:** ![the-companion](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/e47774/32.png) [@the-companion](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/the-companion)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2006, 3:28am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/sending-mail-through-gmail/97282/2 "2006-07-06T03:28:07Z")
On 7/5/06, Ell Q. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > Hi. Could someone give me an example of how to send mail through a gmail > account using the Ruby Net::SMTP class? Park H.'s gmailer library > doesn’t work for me. It’s probably better to figure out why gmailer isn’t working. I’m not sure what you’d have to do for SASL support with gmail/SMTP. -austin ---
**Author:** ![the-companion](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/e47774/32.png) [@the-companion](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/the-companion)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2006, 12:38pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/sending-mail-through-gmail/97282/3 "2006-07-06T12:38:11Z")
On 06/07/06, Ell Q. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > Hi. Could someone give me an example of how to send mail through a gmail > account using the Ruby Net::SMTP class? Park H.'s gmailer library > doesn’t work for me. I saw this the other day: [http://typo.onxen.info/articles/2006/06/27/activemailer-sending-via-gmail](http://typo.onxen.info/articles/2006/06/27/activemailer-sending-via-gmail) It’s using ActionMailer, but I wonder if the same technique might work in your case. Paul. ---
**Author:** ![the-companion](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/e47774/32.png) [@the-companion](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/the-companion)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2006, 12:47pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/sending-mail-through-gmail/97282/4 "2006-07-06T12:47:21Z")
Ell Q. wrote: > Hi. Could someone give me an example of how to send mail through a gmail > account using the Ruby Net::SMTP class? Park H.'s gmailer library > doesn’t work for me. There’s a recent blog post by stoyan at Bloggitation on this topic just here: [http://typo.onxen.info/articles/2006/06/27/activemailer-sending-via-gmail](http://typo.onxen.info/articles/2006/06/27/activemailer-sending-via-gmail) Cheers, Dave ---
**Author:** ![the-companion](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/e47774/32.png) [@the-companion](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/the-companion)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2006, 7:40pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/sending-mail-through-gmail/97282/5 "2006-07-06T19:40:07Z")
Ell Q. wrote: > Hi. Could someone give me an example of how to send mail through a gmail > account using the Ruby Net::SMTP class? Park H.'s gmailer library > doesn’t work for me. > > Thanks may be you should check the SMTP port you provided; because gmail uses port 587. ~sind ---
**Author:** ![the-companion](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/e47774/32.png) [@the-companion](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/the-companion)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2006, 10:06pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/sending-mail-through-gmail/97282/6 "2006-07-06T22:06:00Z")
Ell Q. wrote: > Hi. Could someone give me an example of how to send mail through a gmail > account using the Ruby Net::SMTP class? Park H.'s gmailer library > doesn’t work for me. > > Thanks I’m just trying to write some normal Ruby code (i.e., not Rails), though, so should I be trying to use ActionMailer? If not, and I can just use the Net::SMTP library, I’m not sure what I do here: Net::SMTP.start(‘your.smtp.server’, 25, ‘mail.from.domain’, ‘Your Account’, ‘Your Password’, :login) Is it just Net::SMTP.start(‘[smtp.gmail.com](http://smtp.gmail.com)’, 587, ‘[gmail.com](http://gmail.com)’, ‘ellquing’, 'mypassword, :login)? (The main problem is I don’t know what to put in the ‘mail.from.domain’–I know absolutely nothing about mail servers or whatnot.) Also, for those curious, the problem with the gmailer library is that I used to be able to use it to receive and send mail…but then one day, I’m not sure why, I got the following error when trying to login to any of my accounts: > g = GMailer.connect( “ellquing”, “mypassword” ) > Net::HTTPBadResponse: wrong status line: “\ http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html;charset=utf-8"\>” > from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/net/http.rb:1556:in `read_status_line' from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/net/http.rb:1538:in `read\_new’ > from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/net/http.rb:833:in `request' from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/net/http.rb:615:in `get’ > from ./gmailer.rb:196:in `connect_no_cookie' from ./gmailer.rb:195:in `start’ > from ./gmailer.rb:195:in `connect_no_cookie' from ./gmailer.rb:123:in `initialize’ > from ./gmailer.rb:1767:in `new' from ./gmailer.rb:1767:in `connect’ > from (irb):2 However, I then proceeded to create a new GMail account, and I was able to login fine… ---
**Author:** ![the-companion](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/e47774/32.png) [@the-companion](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/the-companion)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2006, 2:24pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/sending-mail-through-gmail/97282/7 "2006-08-03T14:24:11Z")
sindica wrote: > ~sind and it uses TLS for authentication ~sind