Setting up a Gmail Account to work with ActionMailer in Rails 3

Question

I have a contact page form that is setup to send an email to a Gmail account. Only problem is it won't send. I believe I have narrowed the error down to my settings inside of the initializers directory.

These are my current settings for trying to setup a standard gmail account to send mail:

Could it be that my domain setting is wrong or should I be typing in [email protected] for :user_name? This is the first time I have used ActionMailer so I don't really know what I am doing. Can somebody please help me out!? Thanks!

Solution

If you are using the development environment, change the development.rb to raise delivery errors, with config.action_mailer.raise_delivery_errors = true

Also, the problem might be that :user_name should be the entire email address ([email protected]), that's how Gmail authenticates users.

Comments

[ab217]

I have that enabled, and I have tried using [email protected] in the :user_name field but it never raises an exception when I send it.

[ab217]

I restarted the rails server and used [email protected] and it worked! Thanks a lot!!!