Question

Hi I’m trying to make a mailer for a contact us form. The email would be :from [e-mail] and be :to [e-mail] . Is this possible to do over SMTP in development? Does ActionMailer actually send the email from the users email account or is it just a fake email? The reason I want to use [e-mail] as the sender is because I want it to be easy for me to just reply to that email directly.

I’m trying to use localhost and I’m receiving an error: Errno::ECONNREFUSED (Connection refused - connect(2)): I think it is because I haven’t set up the settings properly. Is it required to have a username/password on an actual gmail account for this email to be sent?

This is my settings right now (I didn’t have any username/password, so could this be the source of my error?):

ActionMailer::Base.smtp_settings = {
  :address              => '127.0.0.1',
  :port                 => 25
}

controller:

def email
  ContactMailer.contact_form(params).deliver
end

mailer:

class ContactMailer < ActionMailer::Base
  default :to => "[e-mail]"

  def contact_form(sender)
    @sender = sender
    mail(:from => sender[:email], :subject => "Question from #{sender[:company] ?     sender[:company] : "" } 
                                              - Contact Us")
  end
end

views/contact_mailer/contact_mailer.text.erb:

We have been contacted by <%= @sender[:email] %>

FIXED

I added this line to my initializer:

ActionMailer::Base.delivery_method = :sendmail

Answer 1

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