--0-226336747-12140122142235 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Seems like the actionmailer has a bug. I tested the actionmailer and the email does not get sent. thanks, Deepak --- 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 --0-226336747-12140122142235--