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PORails 3 mailer not working and not logging any errors
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    copied!<p>I have tried all kinds of configurations but still I can't send an email in my development environment from rails.</p> <p>I installed mailutils to try this from the command line and it worked, I received the email (in spam of course): echo test | mail -s Subject user@example.com</p> <p>Here's my config:</p> <pre><code># Don't care if the mailer can't send config.action_mailer.raise_delivery_errors = true # still no logs about emails config.action_mailer.delivery_method = :smtp config.action_mailer.perform_deliveries = true # I can't believe I have to add this option. Does it even exist? I found it on google. config.action_mailer.smtp_settings = { :enable_starttls_auto =&gt; true, :address =&gt; "smtp.gmail.com", :port =&gt; 587, :domain =&gt; "gmail.com", :authentication =&gt; :login, :user_name =&gt; "some_user@gmail.com", :password =&gt; "abc123", } </code></pre> <p>And here's the code in the mailer:</p> <pre><code>class UserMailer &lt; ActionMailer::Base default :from =&gt; "root@ubuntu" def test_email Rails.logger.debug 'test_email' mail(:to =&gt; 'user@example.com', :subject =&gt; "testing rails") end end </code></pre> <p>The controller:</p> <pre><code>class PagesController &lt; ApplicationController def home UserMailer.test_email end end </code></pre> <p>development.log:</p> <pre><code>[2012-03-01 18:26:45.859] DEBUG [bb44dee806d73eb60ab3ae16297f5c02] [127.0.0.1] [GET] [http://myapp:3000/] test_email [2012-03-01 18:26:45.888] INFO [bb44dee806d73eb60ab3ae16297f5c02] [127.0.0.1] [GET] [http://myapp:3000/] Rendered user_mailer/test_email (1.6ms) [2012-03-01 18:26:45.898] INFO [bb44dee806d73eb60ab3ae16297f5c02] [127.0.0.1] [GET] [http://myapp:3000/] Rendered pages/home.html.erb within layouts/application (1.1ms) [2012-03-01 18:26:46.815] INFO [bb44dee806d73eb60ab3ae16297f5c02] [127.0.0.1] [GET] [http://myapp:3000/] Completed 200 OK in 455ms (Views: 112.4ms) </code></pre> <p>I also tried using the console:</p> <pre><code>root@ubuntu:/srv/www/myapp# rails c Loading development environment (Rails 3.2.1) irb(main):001:0&gt; UserMailer.test_email =&gt; #&lt;Mail::Message:32110400, Multipart: false, Headers: &lt;To: user@example.com&gt;, &lt;Subject: testing rails&gt;, &lt;Mime-Version: 1.0&gt;, &lt;Content-Type: text/html&gt;&gt; </code></pre>
 

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