With my rails site, when I try to send mail through GMail, it works perfectly. But when I try to send it through MandrillApp, it gives the following error (RController.create is where the deliver command is called):
Net::SMTPServerBusy in RController#create
454 4.7.1 <[email protected]>: Relay access denied
Here's my config/environments/development.rb file:
# ActionMailer Config
config.action_mailer.default_url_options = { :host => 'localhost:3000' }
config.action_mailer.delivery_method = :smtp
config.action_mailer.default :charset => "utf-8"
config.action_mailer.perform_deliveries = true
config.action_mailer.raise_delivery_errors = true
config.action_mailer.delivery_method = :smtp
# config.action_mailer.smtp_settings = {
# :address => "smtp.gmail.com",
# :port => 587,
# :domain => 'gmail.com',
# :user_name => '[email protected]',
# :password => 'password',
# :authentication => 'plain',
# :enable_starttls_auto => true }
config.action_mailer.smtp_settings = {
:address => "smtp.mandrillapp.com",
:port => 587,
:user_name => ENV["EMAIL"],
:password => ENV["PASSWORD"]
}
As it is above, the code doesn't work - I don't get an email and no errors pop up. If I switch to sending it from GMail, I get an email almost instantly. I've never worked with Mandrill before, so any help would be appreciated.
I ended up talking to a service rep from Mandrill, and it turns out that I was using the actual strings instead of the environment variables, so I just had to remove "ENV" from the config file.
I ended up going back and making environment variables for security's sake, but I just thought I'd throw that out there in case anyone else has the same problem and finds this question.