Articles tagged 'actionmailer'

• Rails 3.1 smtp gmail Errno::ECONNREFUSED Connection refused

  October 9, 2011

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  This post was originally published in the Rambling Labs Blog on October 9, 2011.

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  I was trying out the rails 3.1 smtp mailer on the sandbox application I use to test all the new stuff and it was throwing this error:

  Errno::ECONNREFUSED in TestController#create
  
  Connection refused - connect(2)
  

  And I had this configuration on config/environments/development.rb:

  Demo::Application.configure do
    # ...
    config.action_mailer.delivery_method :smtp
    config.action_mailer.smtp_settings = {
      enable_starttls_auto: true,
      address: 'smtp.gmail.com',
      port: 587,
      domain: 'gmail.com',
      authentication: 'plain',
      user_name: '<email@yourdomain.com>',
      password: '<password>'
    }
    # ...
  end
  

  I tried quite a number of combinations for…

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