Sending Email in Rails

Question

I am trying to send an email using Ruby on Rails, but I am getting an error:

Net :: SMTPAuthenticationError in UsersController # create

535-5.7.1 Username and password are not accepted.

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But the combination of username and password is correct. I have experienced this several times.

This is my setup_mail.rb:
I changed the username, password and domain for privacy reasons.

ActionMailer::Base.smtp_settings = { :address => "smtp.gmail.com", :port => 587, :domain => "mydomain.com", :authentication => "plain", :user_name => "myname", :password => "mypw", :enable_starttls_auto => true } 

Answer 1

Your username must be

 :user_name => " [e-mail] " 

Gmail requires a domain.

Answer 2

Check if this link is useful

https://github.com/diaspora/diaspora/issues/1539

http://www.manu-j.com/blog/wordpress-exim4-ubuntu-gmail-smtp/75/

Net :: SMTPAuthenticationError in rails 3.1.0.rc5 when connecting to gmail

thanks

Sameera