Running into SMTP error when trying to send email in RoR app

Question

I\'ve been desperately trying to send an email using the Action Mailer class in RoR, and even though the terminal shows that a message is being sent, it keeps returning with

Answer 1

I resolved my issue by doing this.

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: 'mysite.com',
    user_name: myemail@gmail.com,
    password: mypassword,
    authentication: 'plain',
    enable_starttls_auto: true
}

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