Sending Email using Ruby

Question

I am getting the following error while trying to send an email.

 Errno::ECONNREFUSED: Connection refused - connect(2)

Code that sends the email

 Reminder.new_event(event_owner.email).deliver!

My Email settings are

  config.action_mailer.delivery_method = :smtp
  config.action_mailer.smtp_settings = {
    :address => "smtp.gmail.com",
    :port => 587,
    :domain => "google.com",
    :authentication =>"login",
    :user_name => "email address",
    :password => "password",
    :enable_starttls_auto => true
  }

Could you please help me. Thanks

Is it working with any other SMTP setting? I mean to another email server? You need to localize if the problem is only connecting to gmail or to all smtp servers. Is this problem intermitten or has it never ever worked. — Aditya Sanghi
– Aditya Sanghi, Commented Dec 23, 2010 at 8:54

David · Accepted Answer · 2010-12-23 09:01:12Z

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Try with

config.action_mailer.smtp_settings = {
:address => "smtp.gmail.com",
:port => 587,
:domain => "google.com",
:authentication =>"plain",
:user_name => "email address",
:password => "password",
}

Note the:

:authentication =>"plain",

and

:enable_starttls_auto => true

is the default value, no need to specify it.

answered Dec 23, 2010 at 9:01

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felix Over a year ago

Thanks for the answer. Now I dont see any error in the log but still the mail is not getting delivered. When I tried to execute the method from the rails console, I am getting the same error

robzolkos · Accepted Answer · 2010-12-23 10:37:37Z

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Try the following in your config/application.rb file :

config.action_mailer.delivery_method = :smtp
config.action_mailer.smtp_settings = {
  :address => "smtp.gmail.com",
  :port => 587,
  :domain => "google.com",
  :authentication =>"plain",
  :user_name => "email address",
  :password => "password",
  :enable_starttls_auto => true
}

To send the email, try (note, without ! at the end)

Reminder.new_event(event_owner.email).deliver

And try sending a test email to an email address that is not the same as the sending gmail account (as gmail won't allow that through).

answered Dec 23, 2010 at 10:37

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Jakob Ojvind Nielsen · Accepted Answer · 2011-02-03 10:37:07Z

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I did only have success when omitting both :port and :domain, but had to set :tls to true.

  config.action_mailer.delivery_method = :smtp
  config.action_mailer.smtp_settings = { 
    :tls => true,
    :address => "smtp.gmail.com", 
    :authentication => :plain, 
    :user_name => "full-email-address", 
    :password => "password" 
  }

answered Feb 3, 2011 at 10:37

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