I am using google apps for my domain www.bhushangahire.com

For one of my rails application I am using this domain mail account setup for sending mails.
But I am not able to send the mail with the default smtp setings we use for sending mail.

So I search on net and I found the Goggle Apps consider its in different way. Which is TLS ans SSH service, which is not by default comes with the Action mailler.

ActionMailer can’t send emails using GMail out of the box. To add this functionality do the following configuration in your rails application:

  1. Create the file lib/smtp_tls.rb 
    require "openssl"
require "net/smtp"

Net::SMTP.class_eval do
private
def do_start(helodomain, user, secret, authtype)
raise IOError, 'SMTP session already started' if @started
check_auth_args user, secret, authtype if user or secret

sock = timeout(@open_timeout) { TCPSocket.open(@address, @port) }
@socket = Net::InternetMessageIO.new(sock)
@socket.read_timeout = 60 #@read_timeout

check_response(critical { recv_response() })
do_helo(helodomain)

raise 'openssl library not installed' unless defined?(OpenSSL)
starttls
ssl = OpenSSL::SSL::SSLSocket.new(sock)
ssl.sync_close = true
ssl.connect
@socket = Net::InternetMessageIO.new(ssl)
@socket.read_timeout = 60 #@read_timeout
do_helo(helodomain)

authenticate user, secret, authtype if user
@started = true
ensure
unless @started
# authentication failed, cancel connection.
@socket.close if not @started and @socket and not @socket.closed?
@socket = nil
end
end

def do_helo(helodomain)
begin
if @esmtp
ehlo helodomain
else
helo helodomain
end
rescue Net::ProtocolError
if @esmtp
@esmtp = false
@error_occured = false
retry
end
raise
end
end

def starttls
getok('STARTTLS')
end

def quit
begin
getok('QUIT')
rescue EOFError
rescue OpenSSL::SSL::SSLError
end
end
end
  2. Add the following lines to config/environment.rb and replace the values with the appropriate username and password: 
    require 'smtp_tls'
ActionMailer::Base.perform_deliveries = true
ActionMailer::Base.raise_delivery_errors = true
ActionMailer::Base.server_settings = {
:address => "smtp.gmail.com",
:port => 587,
:domain => "mydomain.com",
:authentication => :plain,
:user_name => "username@mydomain.com",
:password => "password"
}

    *Note:To work your domain with “mydomain.com” you have to configure your MX records to work Gmail mail sending functionality out of box.

    Else you can use a temporary address @mydomain.com.test-google-a.com, I have not tested with this as I have already configure my MX records.

    You can get more information on changing http://www.google.com/support/a/bin/answer.py?answer=33352.

    Hope this information is useful to you. ;-)

Posted by Bhushan Ahire, filed under Ruby On Rails. Date: July 28, 2008, 9:36 am |

2 Responses

  1. sandeep Says:
    July 28th, 2008 at 2:12 pm

    good work buddy, keep it up
    the more thing please put the hyperlink to ur url

  2. Bhushan Ahire Says:
    July 29th, 2008 at 9:40 am

    Hey thanks, And about hyperlink, its not live as I am using it with google apps lots of things are not done yet.

    Its been live very soon…. ;-)

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