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')
>


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.


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