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Redmine/Rails email through Gmail SMTP

Jeff Mancuso December 4th, 2008

Here is a bit of help getting Redmine, or any Rails app, to send email over SMTP through an existing Gmail account. It’s quite easy to set up and you gain the usual perks of having everything centralized in a Gmail account. Note: this works with Google Apps for your domain, too.

First you’ll need to install the smtp_tls plugin into your application’s lib directory so you can correctly authenticate. For posterity, I’ve uploaded a copy smtp_tls.rb along with this post.

www@host:~/redmine$ cd lib
www@host:~/redmine/lib$ curl -O http://blog.expandrive.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/smtp_tls.rb

Redmine utilizes email.yml to configure ActionMailer. Here’s what ours looks like:

production:
    delivery_method: :smtp
    smtp_settings:
      address: smtp.gmail.com
      port: 587
      domain: gmail.com
      authentication: :login
      user_name: info@expandrive.com
      password: password

Next, in production.rb makre sure to

require 'smtp_tls'

That’s it, you’re good to go.

If you want to set up any old Rails app [using Action Mailer] to send mail via Gmail, add this to production.rb

require 'smtp_tls' 
 
ActionMailer::Base.delivery_method = :smtp
ActionMailer::Base.perform_deliveries = true
ActionMailer::Base.raise_delivery_errors = true
ActionMailer::Base.default_charset = "utf-8"
 
ActionMailer::Base.smtp_settings = {
:address => "smtp.gmail.com",
:port => 587,
:domain => "gmail.com",
:authentication => :login,
:user_name => "info@expandrive.com",
:password => "password",
}

Tags: actionmailer, gmail, rails, redmine, ruby, smtp, tls

http://shahjapan.blogspot.com japan shah

Try

revert your redmine SVN follow http://github.com/collectiveidea/action_mailer_optional_tls/tree/master

it works !!
http://huyvq.com Huy Vu

Thank you for your post. It’s work for me
http://www.awm.com.br Henrique Mattos

It’s not working for me. Can’t realize why. I’m having this return: “wrong number of arguments (3 for 2)” but can’t understand why and where it’s wrong.
koko jumbo
i fight with that configuration for hours after i did all that this guys said, and finally i notice that this two files are not equal, so make sure that this two files are identical:
- /vendor/plugins/action_mailer_optional_tls/lib/smtp_tls.rb
- /lib/smtp_tls.rb
this fixed my problem. (thanks god..)

koko jumbo.
atif

Hi All, can anyone tell me how i can configure redmine 0.9.4 to recieve emils from POP3 or smtp Thanx
Anitha

Thank you…

After a number of searches for the smtp_tls.rb and everything else in the world… finally your post got me things rolling!!!
Malakias

Awesome post and great comment about same files smtp_tls.rb!!!

Thanks
http://blog.zfilin.org.ua/ zfilin

Thank you for your script! Your method better than described here: http://redmineblog.com/articles/setup-redmine-to-send-email-using-gmail/ Anyway your method works!
http://www.cubixws.com Harshit

Works fantastic! Thanks
Humberto Borba

I have a Ubuntu Server 10.10. I tried to setup my Redmine with Gmail SMTP.

But I got this error:

An error occurred while sending mail ({{value}})

This error appear when I sent an email test on Redmine Adminitration.

Any ideia? Thank you!

Redmine/Rails email through Gmail SMTP

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