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If you have a Google Apps account, you can use Gmail for the outgoing mail of your Rails app. However, Gmail requires STARTTLS to be enabled for its SMTP server. There is a plug-in that patches Net::SMTP to add STARTTLS support, but it’s broken in Ruby 1.8.7. (You’ll get an error about check_auth_args taking two arguments, not three.) The good news is that Ruby 1.8.7’s Net::SMTP includes its own support for STARTTLS! We just need to enable it in Rails.
My patch has been committed to Rails, but isn’t yet in a released version. You can patch Rails 2.1.2 with this code:
class ActionMailer::Base
def perform_delivery_smtp(mail)
destinations = mail.destinations
mail.ready_to_send
sender = mail['return-path'] || mail.from
smtp = Net::SMTP.new(smtp_settings[:address], smtp_settings[:port])
smtp.enable_starttls_auto if smtp.respond_to?(:enable_starttls_auto)
smtp.start(smtp_settings[:domain], smtp_settings[:user_name], smtp_settings[:password],
smtp_settings[:authentication]) do |smtp|
smtp.sendmail(mail.encoded, sender, destinations)
end
end
end
Stick that in an initializer.
Your Rails SMTP settings should be like this:
ActionMailer::Base.smtp_settings = {
:address => "smtp.gmail.com",
:port => 587,
:domain => "example.com",
:authentication => :plain,
:user_name => "username@example.com",
:password => "password"
}
Gmail rewrites the From header in emails, so if you want to send mail from a different address, you’ll have to add another account at your domain.
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