No problem- glad you got it fixed!

Anti-spam efforts make the from-domain a pretty rigid config.

On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 9:17 AM, Gabe Koss <[email protected]> wrote:
> I finally got it working. I just wanted to attach my solution to this
> thread in case anyone else encounters the same problems.
>
> I ended up realizing that the problem had to do with the domain coming
> out of the heroku grid. I found that heroku has an addon called
> "sendgrid" which interacts nicely with ActionMailer. Following these
> instructions (http://docs.heroku.com/sendgrid) plus a little bit of
> settings wrangling and a server restart I got it working!
>
> Thanks Anton and Banane for all your help. The awesome community of
> people working with radiant is one of the main reasons I have chosen to
> use this CMS. Sorry about all the dead ends in this thread.
>
> Gabe
>
>
> Anton Aylward wrote:
>> Gabe Koss said the following on 04/15/2010 11:07 AM:
>>
>>> Thanks for all the help and patience!
>>>
>>> I am almost there. Now it seems to be sending the emails except they
>>> aren't going anywhere. I am succesfully connnecting to the gmail smtp
>>> but get a message stating: 504 5.7.4 Unrecognized Authentication Type.
>>>
>>
>> That, VERY SPECIFICALLY is why I use the :sendmail option !
>>
>> I floundered with the authorization problem for nearly a week, inclduing
>> setting up new mail accounts at my hosting service!
>>
>>
>>> My auth type is set to :plain  in environmen.rb. At the end of the
>>> action it claims to have sent my mail but I am still not receiving the
>>> "sent" mail nor am I being redirected...
>>>
>>> The text of my mailer part reads:
>>>
>>> subject: "Sent from your mailer form"
>>> from_field: email
>>> redirect_to: /about/contact/thanks
>>> recipients:
>>>   - [email protected]
>>>   - [email protected]
>>>
>>
>> That's nice but its not your problem.
>> Your problem is injecting your message into the host mail system.
>> That you are getting a 504 means you are using :smtp
>>
>> So, why is :sendmail a problem for you?
>>
>> Are you really addressing your local machine with this?
>> If the applciaiton and config/environment.rb are on MACHINE-A and the
>> reference you have in the mailer setup in
>> "ActionMailer::Base.smtp_settings" is MACHINE-B then this could cause
>> the problem.
>>
>> You might *THINK* you are addressing the same machine but does the
>> machines resolver think so?
>>
>> That is why using :sendmail is so much easier.
>>
>> Check that sendmail is at /usr/sbin/sendmail and try sending by cat'ing
>> a file with appropriate headers though it.
>>
>> ActionMailer::Base.delivery_method = :sendmail
>> ActionMailer::Base.perform_deliveries = true
>>
>>
>> If its not at /usr/sbin/sendmail you need to override the base settings,
>> which are
>>
>> ActionMailer::Base.sendmail_settings = {
>>   :location       => '/usr/sbin/sendmail',
>>   :arguments      => '-i -t'
>> }
>>
>> Try the command
>>       which sendmail
>> to find it.
>> It may also be somewhere like /usr/lib/sendmail    :-)
>>
>>
>>
>>
>
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