Sending Mail in Rails 4.1

Question

So I am running into an interesting error I have never seen before. I am trying to set up mail in development so that I can send actual emails to my self. So lets go through how I have set up mail

I have an initializer called setup_mail.rb

ActionMailer::Base.smtp_settings = {
  :address => 'smptp.gmail.com',
  :port => 587,
  :domain => "gmail.com",
  :user_name =>  Figaro.env.EMAIL,
  :password =>  Figaro.env.PASSWORD,
  :authentication => 'plain',
  :enable_starttls_auto => true
}

ActionMailer::Base.default_url_options[:host] =  Figaro.env.HOST

From there we have a mailer class in the mailers directory called user_mailer.rb

class UserMailer < ActionMailer::Base
  default from: "AisisPlatForm@AisisPlanner.com"

  def registration_confirmation(user)
    @user = user
    mail(:to => "#{user.first_name} <#{user.email}>", :subject => 'Welcome to AisisPlatform!')
  end

  def password_reset(user)
    @user = user
    mail(:to => "#{user.first_name} <#{user.email}>", :subject => 'Password Reset (AisisPlatform)')
  end
end

It has its appropriate views for both HTML and non HTML versions of said mail. We then do:

UserMailer.registration_confirmation(@user).deliver

in the user create controller to send the mail, but upon submitting the form and creating the user I instantly get:

SocketError (getaddrinfo: nodename nor servname provided, or not known)

So I thought, lets look at the logs (Warning its very long):

UserMailer#registration_confirmation: processed outbound mail in 520.0ms

Sent mail to trolololololololo@mmmmmm.com (89.3ms)
Date: Fri, 04 Jul 2014 19:36:17 -0600
From: AisisPlatForm@AisisPlanner.com
To: trolololololololo <trolololololololo@mmmmmm.com>
Message-ID: <53b7569190dcc_957f3fc5b1ce122c939c1@Adams-Mac-mini.local.mail>
Subject: Welcome to AisisPlatform!
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: multipart/alternative;
 boundary="--==_mimepart_53b756918f0f4_957f3fc5b1ce122c93864";
 charset=UTF-8
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit


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Content-Type: text/plain;
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Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit

trolololololololo,

Welcome and thank you for signing up to AisisPlatform.

We believe that our small, simple and yet very powerful API will allow you to create blog you have always wanted to create.
We are constently growing and evolving the feature set and coming out with new ideas and concepts we hope to share with you.

We are more then grateful for your participation in our services and hope we can be of use to you in any way shape or form that will
help make you happy and excited to use and share our services and products.<

sincerly,

AisisPlatform

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Content-Type: text/html;
 charset=UTF-8
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit

<h3>trolololololololo,</h3>

<p>Welcome and thank you for signing up to AisisPlatform.</p>

<p>We believe that our small, simple and yet very powerful API will allow you to create blog you have always wanted to create.
We are constently growing and evolving the feature set and coming out with new ideas and concepts we hope to share with you.</p>

<p>We are more then grateful for your participation in our services and hope we can be of use to you in any way shape or form that will
help make you happy and excited to use and share our services and products.</p>

<p>sincerly,</p>

<p><em>AisisPlatform</em></p>

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  /Users/Adam/.rvm/rubies/ruby-2.1.1/lib/ruby/2.1.0/net/smtp.rb:541:in `tcp_socket'
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  Rendered /Users/Adam/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.1.1/gems/actionpack-4.1.0/lib/action_dispatch/middleware/templates/rescues/_source.erb (0.5ms)
  [1m[36mPromiscuous Recovery Delete (23.8ms)[0m  [1mDELETE FROM _promiscuous WHERE id = 17[0m
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  Rendered /Users/Adam/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.1.1/gems/actionpack-4.1.0/lib/action_dispatch/middleware/templates/rescues/diagnostics.erb within rescues/layout (15.3ms)

What is going on? Why am I getting this error? I followed Ryan Bates Setting up mail. Is it out of date?

Answer 1

The error tells you that Ruby is not able to find a DNS entry for the SMTP server.

This is because you have a typo in your configuration, its smtp.gmail.com and not smptp.gmail.com . Furthermore the domain should be your domain, not gmail.com :

ActionMailer::Base.smtp_settings = {
  :address              => 'smtp.gmail.com',
  :port                 => 587,
  :domain               => 'aisisplanner.com',
  :user_name            => Figaro.env.EMAIL,
  :password             => Figaro.env.PASSWORD,
  :authentication       => 'plain',
  :enable_starttls_auto => true
}

see: http://guides.rubyonrails.org/action_mailer_basics.html#action-mailer-configuration-for-gmail