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webo
webo

Reputation: 327

Postfix & Rails 3.0 ActionMailer: lost connection after STARTTLS

I'm using Ruby 1.9.2 and Rails 3.0.4 in development mode and I'm trying to configure it to send emails from the Postfix server installed on the same box (Running Ubuntu 10.04 with the dovecot-postfix package installed) Whenever I attempt to send an email from Rails, it goes through cleanly in Rails but displays an error in the Postfix logs (I've removed domains and IPs from the excerpt below):

Feb 21 04:49:16 alpha postfix/smtpd[9060]: connect from alpha.mydomain.com[xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx]
Feb 21 04:49:16 alpha postfix/smtpd[9060]: lost connection after STARTTLS from alpha.mydomain.com[xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx]
Feb 21 04:49:16 alpha postfix/smtpd[9060]: disconnect from alpha.mydomain.com[xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx]

The strange part is that when I connect to the SMTP server from an email client like Thunderbird, it works with no problems.

I know development mode sometimes doesn't allow for sending emails so I added the following to the environments/development.rb file:

config.action_mailer.raise_delivery_errors = true
config.action_mailer.perform_deliveries = true

 #load mail server settings
config.action_mailer.delivery_method = :smtp
config.action_mailer.smtp_settings = {
  :address              => "mail.mydomain.com",
  :port                 => 587,
  :domain               => 'mydomain.com',
  :user_name            => 'username',
  :password             => 'password',
  :authentication       => 'plain',
  :tls  => true,
  :enable_starttls_auto => true  }

Upvotes: 1

Views: 10225

Answers (2)

tigris
tigris

Reputation: 376

If you're just sending email from localhost, then you don't need SMTP and all the authentication issues that come with it. You can simply deliver with sendmail directly.

config.action_mailer.delivery_method = :sendmail

Upvotes: 11

plang
plang

Reputation: 5656

Is it possible that your certificate is not valid, and that Thunderbird falls back to plain SMTP when sending emails? Try disabling TLS in your config.

Upvotes: 1

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