Hey Simon, Thanks - that's very helpful. How did you get the username and password for your sendgrid account?
I also signed up for a Sendgrid account manually for use in development, and that's working fine at this point - maybe I should just point my production instance's SMTP settings at that, and disable the sendgrid add-on... Mat On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 11:01, Simon Starr <[email protected]> wrote: > I ran into exactly the same problem just now while diagnosing a > different problem with the Sendgrid addon. I created a fresh Rails > app, generated a mailer, pushed to Heroku and tried sending a message > from the console. Not sure what's going on but it seems like > something's broken somewhere. > > In response to your other query, earlier in my diagnosis I got the > username and password for my randomly generated sendgrid account and > managed to use them to login to a sendgrid.com control panel. Based on > that, I'd guess you would probably be able to use them for sending > mail from development without any trouble :) > > Cheers > Simon > > On Jan 24, 6:30 pm, outoftime <[email protected]> wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> This is my first time using either Heroku or Sendgrid, and I have a >> couple of questions: >> >> 1) As the subject line indicates, I'm getting a >> Net::SMTPAuthenticationError when trying to send mail from the console >> using an ActionMailer instance. I've enabled the sendgrid basic plugin >> on my Heroku account; I got the impression that the configuration >> would be automatically added to my app's production deployment at >> runtime, so there's nothing special in my production config file. >> Here's what ActionMailer::Base.smtp_settings returns when run from the >> console: >> >> {:domain=>"heroku.com", :user_name=>"", :password=>"", >> :address=>"smtp.sendgrid.net", :port=>"25", :authentication=>:plain} >> >> 2) Is it possible to use the Sendgrid account that Heroku >> automatically sets up for me in development as well? At this point the >> volume of emails I need to send is very small; just a few for testing >> purposes. >> >> Thanks! >> Mat > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Heroku" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/heroku?hl=en. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Heroku" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/heroku?hl=en.
