I'm using gmail to manage the email for my rails app domain.
The google account is, say, account_owner#gmail.com
But the "from" email address should be, say, info#mysite.com
When I configure smtp_settings as below, the email is sent, but the "from" email address is account_owner#gmail.com. I want it to be info#mysite.com, but if I change the :user_name to info#mysite.com and its password, my app seems to send the email, but it is never received. How can I achieve this?
ActionMailer::Base.smtp_settings = {
:address => "smtp.gmail.com",
:port => 587,
:domain => "gmail.com",
:user_name => "account_owner#gmail.com",
:password => "thepassword",
:authentication => "plain",
:enable_starttls_auto => true
}
You cannot change the "from" address when sending mail via Gmail. (Unless maybe if you've configured that account to have other "send as" addresses, though I've never tested it)
I would suggest trying the free hosted Gmail for your domain, or use a third-party service like Mandrill.com
You shouldn't specify it as :user_name in your smtp_settings. Instead you should set the :from option like this:
ActionMailer::Base.default :from => 'info#mysite.com'
Alternatively you can set the from address when you send the email:
mail(:to => 'info#theirsite.com', :from => 'info#mysite.com' :subject => '...')
Related
I'm getting this error in production when trying to create a user (i'm using the devise gem).
EOFError (end of file reached):
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,
:domain => 'example.com',
: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.
It ALSO works when I want to send an email from my domain such as when they fill out the lead magnet. All I did was switch the to: and from: addresses.
Here's a working pony gem call.
Pony.mail({
:to => 'apotonick#gmail.com',
subject: "Pony ride",
body: "Awesome!",
from: "nick#trb.to", # this MUST be the sending Zoho email.
:via => :smtp,
:via_options => {
:address => 'smtp.zoho.com',
:port => '465',
:enable_starttls_auto => true,
ssl: true,
:user_name => 'nick#trb.to', # MUST be identical to :from.
:password => 'yourStrongPw',
:authentication => :login,
}
})
I had this issue, and I tried everything and still couldn't figure out what the issue was.
Let's face it, it's a SH!t message. What I did find though I was running my rails app locally with POW and its actually a POW error.
When I run rails server and do the same thing that caused the error, I actually got the real error message and was able to find I hadn't setup my controller correctly
I've configured smtp_settings for sending emails under Google Apps accounts several times, but now that I need to configure it for an email account using exchange it throws me execution expired message with the following settings:
config.action_mailer.smtp_settings = {
:enable_starttls_auto => true,
:address => 'smtp',
:port => 995,
:domain => 'domain',
:user_name => 'username',
:password => 'password',
:authentication => :plain,
}
The smtp, domain, user name and password were given to me by the client. The port I think it must be 995 (as it uses SSL).
Any ideas?
Well, I figured that the port was 25 instead of 995 and the authentication was login instead of plain.
I'm not sure if this belongs in server fault or here feel free to move it if it makes more sense somewhere else. I've seen the examples for setting up the smtp settings and using ActionMailer with Gmail and confirmed that they work for me.
Basically it looks like this for me:
config.action_mailer.delivery_method = :smtp
config.action_mailer.smtp_settings = {
:address => "smtp.gmail.com",
:port => 587,
:user_name => '<username>',
:password => '<password>',
:authentication => 'plain',
:enable_starttls_auto => true }
What I need to do now is to send an email to an address that isn't a plain Gmail account and yet, at it's core, is Gmail. My company uses whatever google's email service that allows you to use gmail but for the addresses to be listed as username#my.company.com rather than #gmail.com. I know for a fact that you can't simply log into our mail at the main gmail site so I assume our domain is different. Or something.
At the moment, when I simply use my own company user/pass I get an error message telling me that the user/pass was wrong. But I'm guessing the issue is that I'm trying to mail from the gmail variant of my username.
I have confirmed that our smtp server, as far as Thunderbird is concerned, is the normal gmail smtp, that our port is still 587, and that we are using TLS. What do I need to change here so that I can send an email to one of these addresses? Thanks.
I have my own domain setup at google for mail, the url to log into that directly is
http://mail.google.com/a/my.company.com
My rails app that sends mail through that account, has
:domain => "my.company.com"
as well as all the other fields you have.
"<user_name>" needs to be the whole email address, not just the user name.
:address => 'smtp.gmail.com',
:port => 587,
:domain => 'busiess.com',
:user_name => 'username#company.com',
:password => 'password',
:authentication => 'plain',
:enable_starttls_auto => true
I'm using ActionMailer for my Rails 2.3.9 application.
When I send an email using:
deliver_user_invite
config:
def user_invite(subject, content)
subject subject
from "User Invite <invite#mydomain.com>"
recipients "invites#mydomain.com"
sent_on Time.now
content_type "text/html"
body :content => content
end
with SMTP configuration
config.action_mailer.smtp_settings = {
:enable_starttls_auto => true,
:address => 'smtp.gmail.com',
:port => 587,
:domain => 'mydomain.com',
:authentication => :plain,
:user_name => 'user#mydomain.com',
:password => 'password'
}
However when the email is sent, the sender email shows as user#mydomain.com instead of invite#mydomain.com.
Can I have different SMTP configuration for different email addresses? or Is there a way to set the sender email address from ActionMailer config?
This is a Gmail SMTP limitation. It will always make the sender of the e-mail be the username/login you use for your smtp settings, and will ignore your from address.
A possible workaround might be to change the smtp settings dynamically when you need to send as someone else.
Edit: You might be able to go into the settings for your own Gmail account and use the "Add another email address you own" option to allow your account to send through those e-mail addresses. I haven't tested it, but it might work. (See http://www.mobileread.com/forums/showpost.php?p=21093&postcount=1).
i'm trying to send confirmation email to the user.
But i get following error:
Net::SMTPAuthenticationError (502 5.5.2 Error: command not recognized
Configuration in production.rb is following:
# Disable delivery errors, bad email addresses will be ignored
config.action_mailer.raise_delivery_errors = true
# set delivery method to :smtp, :sendmail or :test
config.action_mailer.delivery_method = :smtp
# these options are only needed if you choose smtp delivery
config.action_mailer.smtp_settings = {
:address => 'path_to_address_specified_by_my_hoster',
:port => 25,
:domain => 'my_domain.com',
:authentication => :plain,
:user_name => 'signup#my_domain.com',
:password => 'password'
}
I have created a mailbox in user profile at my hosting provider, named "signup#my_domain.com"
For created mailbox, they issued to me login and password:
login = verbose_login
password = verbose_password
I did't completely understood the exact format of :user_name.
Should i use
:user_name => "signup#my_domain.com"
or:
:user_name => "signup"
or:
:user_name => "verbose_login"
Or this field is specific to the mail server, and i must ask support of hosting provider ?
And what the difference between :authentication => :plain and :login ?
Thanks.
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
I have got the same error recently, and the reason was incorrect format of recipients
recipient = IO.readlines(emails_filename).first
mail(:to => recipient, :subject => subject)
Don't forget to add strip to get clean email addresses.
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',
:password => 'password'
}