Question
Email configuration: rails 4, gmail, godaddy
- Posted on April 15, 2016
- Ruby on RailsDNSUbuntu
Asked by poramo
How to configure: rails 4, gmail, godaddy ? Im using this configuration for my own email/domain: contact@mydomain.com
smtp:
address: smtp.gmail.com
port: 587
domain: mydomain.com
user_name: contact
password: password
authentication: plain
enable_starttls_auto: true
I receive 2 kind of errors:
- *Net::SMTPAuthenticationError: 534-5.7.9 Please log in with your web browser and then try again. Learn more at
- eoferror-end-of-file-reached
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For the STMP error, Google prefers you to use OAuth for authenticating, otherwise you might get errors like this when connecting. You can try a few different things to get around this:
Hope this helps!
It sounds like you are encountering a Google security feature based on the request that you log in with a web browser. Logging into your google account from a browser on your droplet looks like it would resolve that but since most people do not have a need for a graphical environment on their server and text based browsers can be finicky with newer technologies I would recommend setting up a free account somewhere like sendgrid that would allow you to set up SMTP access easily from your server using the method you already are, still use the sender/reply-to address you want and avoid the extra steps.