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AnthonyGalli.com
AnthonyGalli.com

Reputation: 2866

How to Send an Email in Development with Actionmailer Sendgrid?

I'm having an impossible time trying to figure out how to setup email in development with sendgrid, and Actionmailer.

I've read a bunch of varying things and I keep getting different errors. Right now I get this one: 

Net::SMTPFatalError in UsersController#create
550 Cannot receive from specified address <[email protected]>: Unauthenticated senders not allowed

What do I need to put in development.rb so that the activation email is sent? 

config.action_mailer.raise_delivery_errors = true
config.action_mailer.default_url_options = { :host => 'localhost:3000' }
config.action_mailer.perform_deliveries = true
config.action_mailer.delivery_method = :smtp

config.action_mailer.smtp_settings = {
:address        => 'smtp.sendgrid.net',
:port           => '587',
:authentication => :plain,
:user_name      =>  ENV['SENDGRID_USERNAME'],
:password       =>  ENV['SENDGRID_PASSWORD'],
:domain         => 'localhost:3000',
:enable_starttls_auto => true
}

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Upvotes: 1

Views: 3373

Answers (2)

AnthonyGalli.com
AnthonyGalli.com

Reputation: 2866

I used the rails cast tutorial here because I couldn't get it to work with sendgrid: http://railscasts.com/episodes/61-sending-email-revised?view=asciicast

Upvotes: 0

infused
infused

Reputation: 24337

It looks like you just need to set the SENDGRID_USERNAME and SENDGRID_PASSWORD environment variables. You can set these temporarily in your terminal by running the following commands:

export SENDGRID_USERNAME=<your sendgrid username>
export SENDGRID_PASSWORD=<your sendgrid password>

When you restart your terminal you will lose these settings. To make them persistent add those same commands to your ~/.bash_profile

Upvotes: 3

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