rails email error - 530-5.5.1 Authentication Required.

Question

trying to send email form Ruby on Rails but getting this:

SocketError in UsersController#create
getaddrinfo: nodename nor servname provided, or not known
         


        

Answer 1

In case others face the same issue, I just wanted to add that I had the exact same problem trying to implement a mailing system with gmail in my Rails API, and adding :openssl_verify_mode => 'none' did not solve the problem for me.

Instead, installing the figaro gem and then adding my environment variable in application.yml like so:

gmail_username: "myemail@gmail.com"
gmail_password: "mypassword"

did the trick for me.

(and dont forget to change you SMTP settings: )

user_name:             ENV['gmail_username'],
password:              ENV['gmail_password'],