my application is running on digitalocean. i am sending emails using my gmail address. however email delivery fails complaining about authentication exception or something. the same code works fine from localhost. password, smtp port, etc is configured correctly
Sounds like a relay issue. Normally you would not want email sent from a non-local address to be relayed so your mail server is probably just doing the right thing and rejecting it. You'll have to whitelist the host/IP address that you are trying to send from in your mailserver ACLs.
Without info on what software you're using and where things are, I can't be more specific.
That "or something" might be important. =) Could you provide the full error messages?
i dont even see stack traces anymore. its just that the email does not get sent out
HI I have a similar problem. I get
Net::SMTPAuthenticationError: 534-5.7.14 <https://accounts.google.com/ContinueSignIn?sarp=1&scc=1&plt=...
Still isn't solved. I'm thinking this has something to do with some DO setup?
@mimchiang: Are you supplying the correct credentials for your gmail account? Can you post the exact error that you're getting?