Using Gmail to send mail

I’ve been having quite the time getting this recipe to do anything. A little “here’s a good way to debug this” help would have helped this section.

Couple things that worked for me.:

1) the svn repository provided does not respond at all. A comment in Daniel Fischer’s original post about this provides a working repository here: http://svn.nanorails.com/plugins/action_mailer_… (and incidentally nanorails will work with script/plugin install).

2) once installed, I can’t get it to work on the live server. Mysteriously it connects like a champ when I run it locally (it makes no difference if I run it in Production or Development mode, btw).

Here’s the output I get when I run it from the console on the live server:

>> user.send_password_reset
-> "220 mx.google.com ESMTP c29sm5627467anc.38\r\n" 
<- "EHLO \r\n" 
-> "250-mx.google.com at your service, [72.249.83.136]\r\n" 
-> "250-SIZE 28311552\r\n" 
-> "250-8BITMIME\r\n" 
-> "250-STARTTLS\r\n" 
-> "250 ENHANCEDSTATUSCODES\r\n" 
<- "STARTTLS\r\n" 
-> "220 2.0.0 Ready to start TLS\r\n" 
<- "EHLO \r\n" 
-> "250-mx.google.com at your service, [72.249.83.136]\r\n" 
-> "250-SIZE 28311552\r\n" 
-> "250-8BITMIME\r\n" 
-> "250-AUTH LOGIN PLAIN\r\n" 
-> "250 ENHANCEDSTATUSCODES\r\n" 
<- "AUTH PLAIN AGxhcnJ5QHNoYWRvd2JveC5jb20Ac2MwMFRlcnMh\r\n" 
-> "535-5.7.1 Username and Password not accepted. Learn more at         \r\n" 
-> "535 5.7.1 http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=14257 c29sm5627467anc.38\r\n" 
=> #<TMail::Mail port=#<TMail::StringPort:id=0x..fb7da2a0> bodyport=#<TMail::StringPort:id=0x..fb7d9224>>

Any ideas?

Here is the code I have used, and works in both dev and production…

- config/initializers/smtp_gmail.rb

require “smtp_tls”

ActionMailer::Base.smtp_settings = { :address => “smtp.gmail.com”, :port => 587, :domain => “YOURDOMAIN.com”, :authentication => :plain, :user_name => “EMAIL@YOURDOMAIN.com”, :password => “PASSWORD”
}

- vendor/plugins/action_mailer_tls/init.rb

require_dependency ‘smtp_tls’

- vendor/plugins/action_mailer_tls/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
  @socket.debug_output = STDERR #@debug_output
ensure
  unless @started
    # authentication failed, cancel connection.
      @socket.close if not @started and @socket and not @socket.closed?
    @socket = nil
  end
end

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
@socket.debug_output = STDERR #@debug_output
do_helo(helodomain)

authenticate user, secret, authtype if user
@started = true

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
  end
end
end

Uck. Code formatting got all wacky

If it works locally, nothing should be preventing it from working on your server besides server related misconfiguration.

Double check your iptables.

One other thing I’d double check, and this is from experience, make sure your e-mail account on google wasn’t flagged for spam. That happened on production for me because I was testing it by sending mail to something@example.com and because I was going through gmail for that, they labeled that account as “spam”. So, try create a new account and use those settings. It should work.

Your issue may be related to ruby versions. A 1.8.7-compatible version of this plugin has not been released yet (check date of this post). If you want to use ruby 1.8.7 right now, you can hack the plugin yourself: the smtp_tls.rb file needs to be changed on line 8. 8 #change below for 1.8.7 9 #check_auth_args user, secret, authtype if user or secret 10 check_auth_args user, secret if user or secret

Alternatively, you can use ruby 1.8.6 versions until a compatible plugin comes out for 1.8.7.

In case anyone needs it, OpenRain has been migrating their library of opensource code to github lately. The action_mailer_tls code is now here:
http://github.com/openrain/action_mailer_tls/tr…

Hi everyone,

I’m the original author of this plugin.

I apologize for the SVN issue. I was only recently made aware that the URL for the repository was directly referenced in Advanced Rails Recipes.

Like Saul mentioned, we’ve moved a lot of our code over to GitHub. The code’s new home is now referenced here:

openrain-action_mailer_tls href=”http://github.com/openrain/action_mailer_tls/tree/master”>http://github.com/openrain/action_mailer_tls/tr…

Some additional notes:

• The plugin is now a gem, which means that it’s easier to install and to add to vendor/gems via config.gem.
• The gem does not work on Ruby 1.8.7 since this version changes method signatures.
• However, if you’re running Ruby 1.8.7 with Rails 2.2.1, then this gem is no longer necessary.
• Ruby 1.8.7 ships with TLS support which is supported by Rails 2.2.1 out of the box

To enable support for TLS with Rails 2.2.1, you need an initializer (for example, config/initializers/smtp_gmail.rb) with the following settings:

ActionMailer::Base.smtp_settings = {
  :address => "smtp.gmail.com",
  :port => 587,
  :authentication => :plain,
  :enable_starttls_auto => true
  :user_name: your_username@gmail.com
  :password: h@ckme
}

Currently the gem does not have support for Ruby 1.8.7.

Obviously, the ”:user_name” field in the snippet of YAML doesn’t need to have the anchor mailto link. It was added by the forum

Larry:

I’m sure you’ve already figured this out by now.. but for everyone else:

The problem you’re specifically seeing is caused by an incorrect username and password combination. Make sure it’s the full email address (“foo@example.com” or “billg@gmail.com“). Also, the YAML file requires no quotes. See my previous YAML example.

(Assuming that example.com is run by Google Apps)

Answered my question, thanks.

So if it’s now a gem not a plugin, we don’t need ‘require “smtp_tls”’ at the head of config/initializers/smtp_gmail.rb?