They're stored as environment variables (SENDGRID_USERNAME &
SENDGRID_PASSWORD) so you can find them with 'heroku console'

Although that command gives me an error on the test app I just created
(undefined method `size' for nil:NilClass) so I guess the Sendgrid
addon either didn't create an account or didn't return the login
details to the app's environment.


On Jan 25, 4:06 pm, "Matthew A. Brown" <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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
>
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