Rails and SMTP on ubuntu 12.04 x64

September 28, 2013 6.6k views
abachuk
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Running Rails 4 wih passenger, when attempt to send email it crashes with Completed 500 Internal Server Error (in the log). Do I need to set up Postfix in order to send emails from the app? My prduction SMTP settings `config.action_mailer.default_url_options = {:host => domain.com'} config.action_mailer.delivery_method = :smtp config.action_mailer.smtp_settings = { :address => "localhost", :port => 25, :domain => 'domain.com' }`
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kamaln7 MOD September 29, 2013
I recommend using a service such as Mandrill to send mail as it's better than setting up your own mailserver.

You can also install postfix and it should work fine.
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abachuk September 29, 2013
I'll try mandrill, after setting up postfix and SPF all emails go to spam... so it's not very reliable. Thank you.
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pablo September 29, 2013
How much mail do you anticipate sending? If it's on the low end, perhaps a lightweight client like exim4 would work?
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abachuk September 29, 2013
low end for sure, I send emails to register new users. I set up mandrill, sfp, DKIM and still emails go to spam (hotmail, gmail)... any idea what else can be done ?
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pablo September 29, 2013
"I set up mandrill, sfp, DKIM and still emails go to spam..."

WTF!? The only thing I can think of is that your SPF record may need more time to propagate through the internet.

RE: your SPF record

Did you wrap it in quotes (if you're using DigitalOcean's DNS manager); and use ".... ~all" at the end?
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abachuk September 30, 2013
quotes were missing (they were there before I tried mandrill though).

I fixed quotes and added config.action_mailer.default_url_options host (domain name), restarted nginx - now looks like everything is working ok, email doesn't go to spam. I'm using mandrill
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