How to configure Rails mailer with a non-gmail account? - ruby-on-rails

I have a rails mailer that I want to configure with an email account that is non-gmail, and is accessed through outlook. the SMTP address is "smtp.us.exg7.exghost.com". The email is not #exghost.com.
I am running into a 504 5.7.4 unrecognized authentication type error.
Here is my configuration:
config.action_mailer.smtp_settings = {
:address => "smtp.us.exg7.exghost.com",
:port => "587",
:domain => "exghost.org",
:user_name => 'example#example.org',
:password => 'Password',
:authentication => "plain",
:enable_starttls_auto => true
}
Does anyone have any insight into this? I have tried various domains- exghost.com, us.exg7.exghost.com, example.org. I have tried changing authentication from "plain" to "login", but nothing seems to change the error.
I know that in gmail you have to allow third-party access, does this need to be done with other formats?

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I hit this problem before and it was due to my smtp settings using zoho mail.
I believe my configuration below is what fixed the problem:
ActionMailer::Base.delivery_method = :smtp
ActionMailer::Base.smtp_settings = {
:address => "smtp.zoho.com",
:port => 465,
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:user_name => 'user#example.com',
:password => 'password',
:authentication => :login,
:ssl => true,
:tls => true,
:enable_starttls_auto => true
}
Now we've added SSL to the site and I believe that is what is causing this error to occur now.
Does anyone have any insight into this error or zoho mail smtp settings with SSL?
This error was caused by not having my config/initializers/devise.rb specifying the correct email address for config.mailer_sender.
Also! I made this additional mistake and had the same issue: I used my own domain instead of the mail server domain for the "domain" variable.
Your environment variable should be:
GMAIL_DOMAIN=gmail.com
Or for the example above:
:domain => 'gmail.com',
I found one cause for the error here => https://stackoverflow.com/a/40354121/6264112
But this didn't solve my issue. While I wasn't getting any errors, my emails were still not working through Zoho so I found another solution that works perfectly for my needs...
1) Connect Zoho to gmail using SMTP. I setup my zoho email as an alias for my personal gmail account so zoho emails are forwarded to gmail and I can reply to them IN gmail FROM my zoho email address. This should be done anyways so you never have to login to zoho. Just do all emailing from gmail.
2) Connect ActionMailer to gmail account NOT zoho.
config.action_mailer.smtp_settings = {
:address => 'smtp.gmail.com',
:port => 587,
:user_name => ENV["gmail_username"],
:password => ENV["gmail_password"],
:authentication => :plain,
:enable_starttls_auto => true
}
Now, I just need to specify the to and from values in the mailer like so:
def notify_admin (message_details)
#message_details = message_details
mail(to: "jesse#mydomain.com", subject: "Contact form filled out by: " + message_details[:name], from: message_details[:email])
end
This works when I want to send emails to myself as is the example above when someone submits the contact form.
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Here's a working pony gem call.
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:to => 'apotonick#gmail.com',
subject: "Pony ride",
body: "Awesome!",
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:via_options => {
:address => 'smtp.zoho.com',
:port => '465',
:enable_starttls_auto => true,
ssl: true,
:user_name => 'nick#trb.to', # MUST be identical to :from.
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}
})
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:authentication => :plain,
}
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I did't completely understood the exact format of :user_name.
Should i use
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or:
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or:
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This works well for me:
config.action_mailer.smtp_settings = {
:address => 'smtp.gmail.com',
:port => 587,
:domain => 'gmail.com',
:user_name => 'my_nick#gmail.com',
:password => 'secret_password',
:authentication => 'login',
:enable_starttls_auto => true
}
more info here
Petr
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I had the same problem, but it is just a google configuration issue.
For some reason Google was blocking access from unknown location (app in production), so to solve this you can go to http://www.google.com/accounts/DisplayUnlockCaptcha and click continue (this will grant access for 10 minutes for registering new apps).
On the other hand, you could login to your gmail account, then go to https://www.google.com/settings/security/lesssecureapps and enable the access to less secure applications, which was the solution for me!
Please try to login with browser once.
There might be some issue with login (it will ask captcha etc).
Once you successfully logged-in, then try with Rails Mailer.
It should work now.
This issue generally happens with test account as we do not login via browser usually.
Then mail providers ask for confirmation like captcha, dob or answer of security question etc.
You've to use ActionMaliler::Base instead of config
ActionMailer::Base.smtp_settings #try this
config.action_mailer.smtp_settings #instead of this
Change your smtp code to below. It should work now.
ActionMailer::Base.smtp_settings = {
:address => 'path_to_address_specified_by_my_hoster',
:port => 25,
:domain => 'my_domain.com',
:authentication => :plain,
:user_name => 'signup#my_domain.com',
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