# SMTP ActionMailer Email Problem

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/smtp-actionmailer-email-problem/107751>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [June 25, 2007, 11:08pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/smtp-actionmailer-email-problem/107751 "2007-06-25T23:08:47Z")\
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**Post date:** [June 25, 2007, 11:08pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/smtp-actionmailer-email-problem/107751/1 "2007-06-25T23:08:47Z")

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Hi,

I’m trying to send some emails via actionmailer using the SMTP  
settings for my shared hosting. All seems fine, and I get no errors,  
but I also get no emails.

Any ideas as to what to look for or how to go about testing the SMTP  
settings? I’ve googled and googled but found nothing.

TIA

George.

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**Post date:** [June 26, 2007, 10:22am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/smtp-actionmailer-email-problem/107751/2 "2007-06-26T10:22:06Z")

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a couple issues could be at hand … the first two i can think of are

\*) you are in development environment, whereas ActionMailer works in  
production  
\*) an error occurs along the deliver method, and the email doesn’t get  
sent because there is an app error. check out the logs to see why.

it’s none of the above?

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**Post date:** [June 28, 2007, 11:01am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/smtp-actionmailer-email-problem/107751/3 "2007-06-28T11:01:52Z")

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Well, Master Shai, are you going to shed some more info on us?  
I too, have the same problem and ALSO cannot find any information to  
solve this problem on the web. I tried loading a ‘virtual’ Windows  
SMPT server but this only crashed my server.  
I’ve got to believe all Windows Rails programmers have this same  
problem.  
Thanks,  
Kathy

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**Post date:** [June 28, 2007, 4:00pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/smtp-actionmailer-email-problem/107751/4 "2007-06-28T16:00:41Z")

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> I’ve got to believe all Windows Rails programmers have this same  
> problem.

… mmm, sorry bout the ignorant response, but i don’t really know what  
the situation regarding windows would be as i haven’t used one in more  
than a year or so (i actually moved to ubuntu [linux debian] because i  
was having some trouble with windows, but to each his own)

if you’ve got some hosting service (not on localhost), you can direct  
the ActionMailer settings to there, and they actually send out the email  
after ActionMailer configures the correct headers and all.

to be honest though, i may be getting entangled in the wrong thread (get  
the pun?), as i don’t really know the situation with InstantRails |  
windows …

maybe i should pass this along to someone who knows a little better…  
?