Perhaps it is because I am using Ubuntu and not a mac? I don't have 
sendmail in /usr/sbin/ or /usr/lib/ and I don't think that it would work 
from heroku...

Gabe

Anton Aylward wrote:
> Gabe Koss said the following on 04/15/2010 11:07 AM:
>   
>> Thanks for all the help and patience!
>>
>> I am almost there. Now it seems to be sending the emails except they 
>> aren't going anywhere. I am succesfully connnecting to the gmail smtp 
>> but get a message stating: 504 5.7.4 Unrecognized Authentication Type. 
>>     
>
> That, VERY SPECIFICALLY is why I use the :sendmail option !
>
> I floundered with the authorization problem for nearly a week, inclduing
> setting up new mail accounts at my hosting service!
>
>   
>> My auth type is set to :plain  in environmen.rb. At the end of the 
>> action it claims to have sent my mail but I am still not receiving the 
>> "sent" mail nor am I being redirected...
>>
>> The text of my mailer part reads:
>>
>> subject: "Sent from your mailer form"
>> from_field: email
>> redirect_to: /about/contact/thanks
>> recipients:
>>   - [email protected]
>>   - [email protected]
>>     
>
> That's nice but its not your problem.
> Your problem is injecting your message into the host mail system.
> That you are getting a 504 means you are using :smtp
>
> So, why is :sendmail a problem for you?
>
> Are you really addressing your local machine with this?
> If the applciaiton and config/environment.rb are on MACHINE-A and the
> reference you have in the mailer setup in
> "ActionMailer::Base.smtp_settings" is MACHINE-B then this could cause
> the problem.
>
> You might *THINK* you are addressing the same machine but does the
> machines resolver think so?
>
> That is why using :sendmail is so much easier.
>
> Check that sendmail is at /usr/sbin/sendmail and try sending by cat'ing
> a file with appropriate headers though it.
>
> ActionMailer::Base.delivery_method = :sendmail
> ActionMailer::Base.perform_deliveries = true
>
>
> If its not at /usr/sbin/sendmail you need to override the base settings,
> which are
>
> ActionMailer::Base.sendmail_settings = {
>   :location       => '/usr/sbin/sendmail',
>   :arguments      => '-i -t'
> }
>
> Try the command
>       which sendmail
> to find it.
> It may also be somewhere like /usr/lib/sendmail    :-)
>
>
>
>   

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