You need to patch Net::SMTP to use Gmail. Do a Google search for smtp_tls, download it to your app's lib directory and setup action mailer to use smtp. The Rails Wiki has a great example of how to setup ActionMailer for SMTP.
http://wiki.rubyonrails.org/howtos/mailers On Jun 24, 2:00 pm, Marnen Laibow-Koser <rails-mailing-l...@andreas- s.net> wrote: > kopf1988 wrote: > > I really don't think you can do that, because you'd need SMTP. Now if > > there was a pop or imap plugin, maybe that would work for GMail. > > Sorry, but it seems like you don't know what you're saying here. POP > and IMAP are used only for receiving mail -- SMTP is *always* used for > sending. > > Gmail does provide SMTP access, but it's a bit of a pain to set up with > ActionMailer due to its authentication method. What I do on my dev box > is just use my ISP's SMTP server -- much simpler. > > Best, > -- > Marnen Laibow-Koserhttp://www.marnen.org > [email protected] > -- > Posted viahttp://www.ruby-forum.com/. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" 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/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
