Using actionmailer to send an email

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1

Hi, I was just wondering how i would write a ruby script to send an
email using the gmail smtp. Here is what I have so far:

require 'rubygems'
require 'action_mailer'

class SimpleMailer < ActionMailer::Base
  def simple_message(recipient)
    from 'my_email@gmail.com'
    recipients recipient
    subject 'yay I just sent this'
    body 'hope this works'
  end
end

ActionMailer::Base.smtp_settings = { :address =>
'smtp.gmail.com', :port => '25', :user_name =>
'my_email@gmail.com', :password => 'my_password', :authentication =>
'login' }

SimpleMailer.deliver_simple_message('other_email@gmail.com')

Unfortunately, when run I get these error messages:

ruby mail.rb
/usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/net/smtp.rb:680:in `check_response': 530 5.7.0
Must issue a STARTTLS command first. z80sm1963933pyg.31
(Net::SMTPUnknownError)
        from /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/net/smtp.rb:582:in `auth_login'
        from /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/net/smtp.rb:686:in `critical'
        from /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/net/smtp.rb:581:in `auth_login'
        from /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/net/smtp.rb:571:in `__send__'
        from /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/net/smtp.rb:571:in `authenticate'
        from /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/net/smtp.rb:411:in `do_start'
        from /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/net/smtp.rb:378:in `start'
        from /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/net/smtp.rb:316:in `start'
        from /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionmailer-2.1.0/lib/
action_mailer/base.rb:627:in `perform_delivery_smtp'
        from /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionmailer-2.1.0/lib/
action_mailer/base.rb:508:in `__send__'
        from /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionmailer-2.1.0/lib/
action_mailer/base.rb:508:in `deliver!'
        from /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionmailer-2.1.0/lib/
action_mailer/base.rb:383:in `method_missing'
        from mail.rb:15

2

Seems like the actionmailer has a bug. I tested the actionmailer and the email does not get sent.

thanks,
Deepak

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--- On Fri, 6/20/08, APNelson.L <APNelson.L@gmail.com> wrote:

From: APNelson.L <APNelson.L@gmail.com>
Subject: Using actionmailer to send an email
To: "ruby-talk ML" <ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org>
Date: Friday, June 20, 2008, 6:13 PM

Hi, I was just wondering how i would write a ruby script to send an
email using the gmail smtp. Here is what I have so far:

require 'rubygems'
require 'action_mailer'

class SimpleMailer < ActionMailer::Base
  def simple_message(recipient)
    from 'my_email@gmail.com'
    recipients recipient
    subject 'yay I just sent this'
    body 'hope this works'
  end
end

ActionMailer::Base.smtp_settings = { :address =>
'smtp.gmail.com', :port => '25', :user_name =>
'my_email@gmail.com', :password => 'my_password',
:authentication =>
'login' }

SimpleMailer.deliver_simple_message('other_email@gmail.com')

Unfortunately, when run I get these error messages:

ruby mail.rb
/usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/net/smtp.rb:680:in `check_response': 530 5.7.0
Must issue a STARTTLS command first. z80sm1963933pyg.31
(Net::SMTPUnknownError)
        from /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/net/smtp.rb:582:in `auth_login'
        from /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/net/smtp.rb:686:in `critical'
        from /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/net/smtp.rb:581:in `auth_login'
        from /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/net/smtp.rb:571:in `__send__'
        from /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/net/smtp.rb:571:in `authenticate'
        from /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/net/smtp.rb:411:in `do_start'
        from /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/net/smtp.rb:378:in `start'
        from /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/net/smtp.rb:316:in `start'
        from /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionmailer-2.1.0/lib/
action_mailer/base.rb:627:in `perform_delivery_smtp'
        from /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionmailer-2.1.0/lib/
action_mailer/base.rb:508:in `__send__'
        from /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionmailer-2.1.0/lib/
action_mailer/base.rb:508:in `deliver!'
        from /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionmailer-2.1.0/lib/
action_mailer/base.rb:383:in `method_missing'
        from mail.rb:15

3

# ruby mail.rb
# /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/net/smtp.rb:680:in `check_response': 530 5.7.0
# Must issue a STARTTLS command first. z80sm1963933pyg.31

this means that the server requires tls.
check the rails list, they know better about actionmailer and its plugins.

kind regards -botp

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From: APNelson.L [mailto:APNelson.L@gmail.com]

4

you need to patch Net::SMTP to support tls, this is one of the easiest ways:

   http://drawohara.com/post/37908300/rails-using-ssl-tls-with-actionmailer-gmail

cheers.

a @ http://codeforpeople.com/

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On Jun 20, 2008, at 7:13 PM, APNelson.L wrote:

Hi, I was just wondering how i would write a ruby script to send an
email using the gmail smtp. Here is what I have so far:

require 'rubygems'
require 'action_mailer'

class SimpleMailer < ActionMailer::Base
  def simple_message(recipient)
    from 'my_email@gmail.com'
    recipients recipient
    subject 'yay I just sent this'
    body 'hope this works'
  end
end

ActionMailer::Base.smtp_settings = { :address =>
'smtp.gmail.com', :port => '25', :user_name =>
'my_email@gmail.com', :password => 'my_password', :authentication =>
'login' }

SimpleMailer.deliver_simple_message('other_email@gmail.com')

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5

so how would I go about writing a scrip to send an email then?

6

APNelson.L wrote:
> so how would I go about writing a scrip to send an email then?

You might have some small hope of installing a lite POP3 server on your own
workstation. Then you can test ActionRecord by sending it mail.

I tried that once, and I could not find a POP3 server that was _lite_, like
a student's sketch of one. They were all real servers, top-heavy and
configuration-hostile.

Then turn on TLS security, to emulate how GMail does it...

--
Phlip
http://assert2.rubyforge.org/assert_yin_yang.html

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On Jun 21, 8:45 am, Phlip <phlip2...@gmail.com> wrote:

7

you have to add this piece of code for gmail smtp to work thro action
mailer
INSTALL THE FOLLOWING AS smtp_tls UNDER C:\ruby\lib\ruby\gems\1.8\gems
\actionmailer-2.0.2\lib
############## START OF CODE ##################################
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
    @socket.debug_output = STDERR #@debug_output

    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
    @socket.debug_output = STDERR #@debug_output
    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
    end
  end
end

##########END OF CODE #############################################

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On Jun 22, 5:47 am, Junkone <junko...@gmail.com> wrote:

On Jun 21, 8:45 am, Phlip <phlip2...@gmail.com> wrote:

> APNelson.L wrote:
> > so how would I go about writing a scrip to send an email then?

> You might have some small hope of installing a lite POP3 server on your own
> workstation. Then you can test ActionRecord by sending it mail.

> I tried that once, and I could not find a POP3 server that was _lite_, like
> a student's sketch of one. They were all real servers, top-heavy and
> configuration-hostile.

> Then turn on TLS security, to emulate how GMail does it...

> --
> Phlip
> http://assert2.rubyforge.org/assert_yin_yang.html- Hide quoted text -

- Show quoted text -

8

I really like this plugin for doing this
http://code.openrain.com/rails/action_mailer_tls/. Seems though like
this should be in ActiveMailer though... I am on Rails 2.1, and a lot
of the posts are referring to Rails 1.x!

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