eXpand yOur cReativity by Bhushan G Ahire

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.