I'm trying to setup discourse, which is a rails3 webapp, but have some problems configuring smtp with gmail smtp server.
I have registered a new gmail account yesterday, and I can logged in browser and email-client software.
Then I configure discourse, in the file config/environments/production.rb:
config.action_mailer.delivery_method = :smtp
config.action_mailer.smtp_settings = {
:address => "smtp.gmail.com",
:port => "587",
:user_name => "smtp4shuzu#gmail.com",
:password => "12345678",
:authentication => :plain,
:domain => "shuzhu.org",
:enable_starttls_auto => true
}
Start the sidekiq which is used to sending the mails in the background:
nohup bundle exec sidekiq > log/sidekiq.log 2>&1 &
Then start discourse in production mode:
rails server -e production -d
But it doesn't work. I can see some errors in sidekiq.log:
2013-03-01T03:06:02Z 30687 TID-qib28 WARN: {"retry"=>true, "queue"=>"default", "class"=>"Jobs::UserEmail", "args"=>[{"type"=>"signup", "user_id"=>42, "email_token"=>"b40a21ece2b14586e346abfd96685975", "current_site_id"=>"default"}], "jid"=>"558bb6bd5aa36cfc8d3d1e91", "error_message"=>"Connection refused - connect(2)", "error_class"=>"Errno::ECONNREFUSED", "failed_at"=>2013-03-01 03:06:02 UTC, "retry_count"=>0}
2013-03-01T03:06:02Z 30687 TID-qib28 WARN: Connection refused - connect(2)
2013-03-01T03:06:02Z 30687 TID-qib28 WARN: /home/discourse/.rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.3-p385/lib/ruby/1.9.1/net/smtp.rb:540:in initialize'
/home/discourse/.rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.3-p385/lib/ruby/1.9.1/net/smtp.rb:540:inopen'
/home/discourse/.rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.3-p385/lib/ruby/1.9.1/net/smtp.rb:540:in `tcp_socket'
I have tried all kinds of smtp settings, but none of them works.
UPDATE:
Per #Basil's answer, I just tried:
config.action_mailer.delivery_method = :smtp
config.action_mailer.smtp_settings = {
:address => "smtp.gmail.com",
:port => 587,
:user_name => "smtp4shuzu",
:password => "12345678",
:authentication => "plain",
:enable_starttls_auto => true
}
But it has the same error. The domain shuzu.org is the domain of my site, I was thinking I should passing it to smtp. Now I removed it, but still not working.
At last, I found the (stupid) reason.
I should start sidekiq in production mode:
nohup bundle exec sidekiq -e production > log/sidekiq.log 2>&1 &
Try removing the quotes around the port
:port => 587,
Also, I don't understand why your email address is #gmail but your domain is #shuhzu... smtp settings should show the domain for your email account. If you have a custom gmail, i.e me#custom.com then domain would be custom.com. Here is an example of what smtp settings for your domain should be if you have a custom email address:
{
:address => "smtp.gmail.com",
:port => 587 ,
:domain => "custom.com",
:user_name => "some_email#custom.com",
:password => "some_password",
:authentication => "plain",
:enable_starttls_auto => true
}
Sometimes it is useful to uncomment the following line in /var/discourse/containers/app.yml:
## If you want to set the 'From' email address for your first registration, uncomment and change:
## After getting the first signup email, re-comment the line. It only needs to run once.
- exec: rails r "SiteSetting.notification_email='noreply#YOURDOMAIN.com'"
You should put here the address on behalf of which all Discourse's emails should come. By default Discourse will try to use your forum's domain name, but it may not be allowed by your SMTP. For example, your forum is at forum.example.com, while your Gmail SMTP only allows emails from example.com.
For SMTP without authentication just leave the auth fields like this:
DISCOURSE_SMTP_USER_NAME:
DISCOURSE_SMTP_PASSWORD:
and after everything is saved:
./launcher rebuild app
Once emails are working, you can re-comment this line (with SiteSetting).
You can even just set this SiteSetting via console, but it's more difficult than uncommenting/re-commenting a single line and re-build the container, so I'll not elaborate on this.
On my install, which is one of those pre-made image thingies (Bitnami), I just had to run this:
/opt/discourse-0.9.5-0/ctlscript.sh start discourse_sidekiq
Anyone know how I can automate this so that it happens on startup?
I just set up a new discourse instance in a docker container on my own ubuntu physical on site server and edited the app.yml to contain:
DISCOURSE_SMTP_ADDRESS: 'smtp.gmail.com'
DISCOURSE_SMTP_AUTHENTICATION: 'plain'
DISCOURSE_SMTP_PORT: 587
DISCOURSE_SMTP_USER_NAME: 'my.name#gmail.com'
DISCOURSE_SMTP_PASSWORD: 'myPa$$word'
DISCOURSE_SMTP_ENABLE_START_TLS: true
and it worked. Half the battle was knowing where to put single inverted commas (') and where not to.
Another way was available to me also - my ISP provides a relay smtp for it's static IP customers so I used this in app.yam:
DISCOURSE_SMTP_ADDRESS: mail.myisp.tld
DISCOURSE_SMTP_AUTHENTICATION: none
DISCOURSE_SMTP_PORT: 25
and it works for me also.
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I'm trying to switch over to SendGrid from Mandrill in my Rails 4.2 app through SendGrid's SMTP Relay. I have set the 'To Email' to be my personal email address so that I can view the emails that have been sent, however none of the emails actually appear in my inbox despite the rails console claiming to have processed and sent the email.
I am fairly certain all my mailers have the appropriate smtp settings as I have mostly followed the instructions provided on the SendGrid website: https://sendgrid.com/docs/Integrate/Frameworks/rubyonrails.html
I have also tested my connectivity to SendGrid's SMTP Relay through telnet and the connection is succesful.
My SendGrid dashboard indicated that 0 emails have been sent. None of my emails appear under the Suppressions tab either so it's not like they have bounced or have been blocked.
This is in my config/environment.rb:
ActionMailer::Base.smtp_settings = {
:user_name => 'apikey',
:password => ENV['SENDGRID_API_KEY'],
:domain => 'heroku.com',
:address => 'smtp.sendgrid.net',
:port => 587,
:authentication => :plain,
:enable_starttls_auto => true
}
This is in my config/environments/development.rb:
config.action_mailer.delivery_method = :smtp
config.action_mailer.perform_deliveries = true
config.action_mailer.default_url_options = { :host => 'smtp.sendgrid.net' }
This is the line in my controller that calls my ApplicationMailer:
ApplicationMailer.send_email(user, 'mypersonalemail#email.com', 'Test Subject').deliver
And this is what gets printed in the console when the mailer method is executed:
ApplicationMailer#send_email: processed outbound mail in 789.9ms
Sent mail to mypersonalemail#email.com (103.4ms)
But I still don't get any emails in my inbox or spam folder. Does anyone know how I can solve this? Thanks in advance.
Your domain and host options are wrong. Use localhost:3000 (unless you're using docker or something at which point replace localhost:3000 with 0.0.0.0:8000)
#/environments/development.rb
#Mailer Options
config.action_mailer.delivery_method = :smtp
config.action_mailer.perform_deliveries = true
ActionMailer::Base.smtp_settings = {
:address => 'smtp.sendgrid.net',
:port => '587',
:authentication => :plain,
:user_name => ENV['SENDGRID_USERNAME'],
:password => ENV['SENDGRID_PASSWORD'],
:domain => 'localhost:3000',
:enable_starttls_auto => true
}
config.action_mailer.default_url_options = { host: 'http://localhost:3000' }
config.action_mailer.asset_host = 'http://localhost:3000'
Make sure to add the sendgrid credentials to your local machine as environment vars. To get them, go to your heroku app and click on settings, then "reveal config vars". Then add those sendgrid credentials to your local machine as env. vars and you're done.
Strange behaviour I have. I'm using gmail to send my emails in my Rails app. I have my gmail configured to accept less secure apps.
However I send one email and then when I go to my google account it prompts me to restore the account via my phone.
After that, my app no longer sends email and I get this in my Heroku logs:
Net::SMTPAuthenticationError (534-5.7.9 Please log in with your web browser and then try again.
My production.rb is set up this way:
config.action_mailer.delivery_method = :smtp
config.action_mailer.smtp_settings = {
:address => "smtp.gmail.com",
:port => 587,
:user_name => 'xxx#gmail.com',
:password => 'xxxxxx',
:authentication => "plain",
:enable_starttls_auto => true,
}
Anybody any ideas?
I think you have to set the domain to gmail.com
config.action_mailer.smtp_settings = {
:address => "smtp.gmail.com",
:port => 587,
:domain => "gmail.com",
:user_name => "xxx#gmail.com",
:password => "xxxxxxx",
:authentication => :plain,
:enable_starttls_auto => true
}
If it worked then ok, if not try to change the :authentication to :login.
Advice: Check Gmail's security events too and double-check that all security settings are intact.
So I had several problems. The one that was caused by my inattention was that I didn't read Figaro gem docs properly and I wasn't sending out the proper info to Heroku with figaro heroku:set -e production.
Secondly my account would go into lockdown after I created it and sent first email. Steps to do:
enable two-step verifiation
generate app specific keys
put them in your config/application.yml if you're using Figaro
push and run figaro command
you might have to clear CAPTCHA on gmail see here
Follow the coment by #Mohamed
Advice: Check Gmail's security events too and double-check that all security settings are intact.
LINK: https://www.google.com/settings/security/lesssecureapps
I have a rails 4 app. I set up ActionMailer and I can send order confirmation emails via localhost and gmail.
I installed Sendgrid on Heroku and followed the set up instructions. I get a Net::SMTPSyntaxError (501 Syntax error
my environment.rb (i have sendgrid user/pwd in application.yml)
ActionMailer::Base.smtp_settings = {
:address => 'smtp.sendgrid.net',
:port => '587',
:authentication => :plain,
:user_name => ENV['SENDGRID_USERNAME'],
:password => ENV['SENDGRID_PASSWORD'],
:domain => 'heroku.com',
:enable_starttls_auto => true
}
in production.rb - the only actionamailer setting i have is this. I have this as a placeholder to put the real domain in later. I'm currently using herokuapp.com.
config.action_mailer.default_url_options = { host: 'localhost:3000' }
in my orders_controller within the order create method, I call the below.
AutoNotifier.orderconf_email(current_user, #order).deliver
auto_notifier.rb
class AutoNotifier < ActionMailer::Base
default from: "Test Email"
def orderconf_email(current_user, order)
#buyer = current_user
#order = order
mail(to: #buyer.email, subject: 'Thank you for your order.')
end
end
What am I missing? It works on localhost with gmail so I'm missing something in the sendgrid settings or in the default_url in production.rb file.
For posterity, here's a working setup for external SMTP in Rails on Heroku:
#config/environments/production.rb
config.action_mailer.smtp_settings = {
:address => "smtp.sendgrid.net",
:port => 587, # ports 587 and 2525 are also supported with STARTTLS
:enable_starttls_auto => true, # detects and uses STARTTLS
:user_name => ENV["SENDGRID_USERNAME"],
:password => ENV["SENDGRID_PASSWORD"], # SMTP password is any valid API key, when user_name is "apikey".
:authentication => 'login',
:domain => 'yourdomain.com', # your domain to identify your server when connecting
}
Change default from: "Test Email" to valid email address, even example#example.com.
I would just like to point out, this is for sending emails via SMTP. While this method is totally ok, you should also consider sending via the API.
To do this, you need to specify an interceptor. Luckily, there's a Gem that helps with that. Here's a good article showing how to use it.
https://rubyplus.com/articles/561-Sending-Emails-using-SendGrid-API-in-Rails-4-1
It took us a long time to resolve the issue when we tried to deploy the SMTP relay on heroku. It worked perfectly fine on local but when pushed we received socket errors and time out issues. Eventually got it working.
Important note: Make sure not to use starttls_auto and SSL/or TLS this causes open SSL issue.
trying to set up my own ActionMailer::Base in RubyRails -> This works:
ActionMailer::Base.smtp_settings = {
:address => "smtp.gmail.com",
:port => 587,
:domain => "anythingworks",
:user_name => "mygmailaddress#gmail.com",
:password => "somePW",
:authentication => "plain",
:enable_starttls_auto => true
}
fine.. but it would be nice if I could use my mail server. but when i am trying this:
ActionMailer::Base.smtp_settings = {
:address => "smtp.myowndomain.de",
:port => 25, (tried 587) also
:domain => "triedanything",
:user_name => "mycorrectuser",
:password => "yesitisthecorretpw",
:authentication => "plain",
:enable_starttls_auto => true
}
Tried lot of different settings / changes. But no E-Mail is sent. Is there any logs avaiable to this ? Think its something because authentication... "login" instead of "plain" doesnt help...
Had some tests with telnet sending some E-mails from command line.
gmail doesnt work from command line (saying STARTTTLS or something). My own domain mails server (which is hosted from some provider) says "relay access denied" (from commandline).
Webmail both working..
Any ideads ? Thanks!
The answer is the "relay access denied" message. Your smtp server needs to be configured to relay emails for this to work. I suspect that your smtp server is configured to accept connections for delivery TO your domain, not to relay emails elsewhere.
The same error message will probably be found in the smtp server's log files. Try sending an email to yourself (which would just be an accept, rather than a relay, for your smtp server). If emails to yourself are delivered, but emails to other domains are not, you will have confirmation that that is the problem.
Your ISP probably has an smtp server you can use for outgoing emails. If you want to use your own email server, it will need to be configured to relay emails.
I have Users that are able to invite others by email to a project they are working on but I keep getting the following error-
Net::SMTPAuthenticationError
Here is how I have mail settings configured for my production environment
config.action_mailer.default_url_options = { :host => 'myapp.herokuapp.com' }
#Sending email on the production side
config.action_mailer.smtp_settings = {
:enable_starttls_auto => true,
:address => "smtp.gmail.com",
:port => "587",
:domain => "gmail.com",
:authentication => :plain,
:user_name => "example#gmail.com",
:password => "password"
}
It works in my local environment using sqlite3 as I expect but when I push to heroku it throws the above error after running heroku logs. I believe my config settings to be correct and obviously heroku uses postgresql, so what am I missing here?
Thanks for you r attention.
I found the reason here How to send confirmation e-mails using gmail smtp service for registration using devise under development mode locally?
Google had detected some "suspicious" activity on the newly created account and was blocking me from sending emails. After verifying the account I was able to send emails with the above config and switching :domain => "heroku.com"