Question

I have installed restful_authentcation from technoweenie with activation, and so I see the generated UserMailer < ActionMailer::Base.

However, the instructions don’t include how to set it up to work with Google SMTP.

I am guessing that environments/development.rb needs to have the SMTP settings, but still not sure given Google (via Google apps) are all TLS.

Anyone set up activation using restful_authentication?

I currently put into environments.rb the following:

 ActionMailer::Base.smtp_settings = {
     :enable_starttls_auto => true,
     :address => "smtp.gmail.com",
     :port => "587",
     :domain => "mydomain.com",
     :authentication => :plain,
     :user_name => "[e-mail]",
     :password => "mypassword"

}

Thanks!!

Answer 1

As far as I know, ActionMailer doesn’t do TLS out of the box (2.3.2). A couple of months ago I had the same issue and found some code on a Japanese page and integrated that. it appears that code has been wrapped up into a plugin now (with english docs yeah!). That’s not exactly what I’m using, but it advertises the same effect.

so add this plugin:
http://github.com/openrain/action_mailer_tls/tree/master

and in environments/development.rb or environements.rb you need something like this:

ActionMailer::Base.smtp_settings = {
  :address => "smtp.gmail.com",
  :port => 587,
  :domain => "yourdomain.com",
  :user_name => "[e-mail]",
  :password => "passwd",
  :authentication => :plain
} 

I see that :enable_starttls_auto => true is now in the docs, but it wasn’t when I started. this at least works for me…

Edit: for some reason that link doesn’t work if you follow it, but copy paste in the address bar and it’s live…