On 20 Mar 2009, at 18:16, tony wrote:
>
> I have a rails app that can send emails to gmail, yahoo accounts. But
> when it comes to more obscure accounts like emai...@my-app.com or
> emai...@blah.edu, the mail never arrives even though the log shows
> that
> the email was sent. Any ideas why this may be happening?
>
Different hosts might be more or less restrictive when it comes to
spam (eg blacklists of ip ranges, whether they check SPF records etc...)
> I have sent an email directly through the same web server through the
> command line using
>
> mail -s and that worked. Why doesn't it work through my rails app?
>
I know nothing about mail -s. Does it send email through the same smtp
server as your rails app. Would it set the same return-path/from
address (which is what matters for SPF) as your rails app ?
Fred
> here are my configuration settings (mostly default)
>
> # Disable delivery errors, bad email addresses will be ignored
> config.action_mailer.delivery_method = :smtp
> config.action_mailer.raise_delivery_errors = true
> config.action_mailer.perform_deliveries = true
> config.action_mailer.default_charset = "utf-8"
>
> config.action_mailer.smtp_settings = {
> :address => "localhost",
> :port => 25,
> :domain => "my-app.com"
> }
>
> help please!
>
> thanks
> Tony
> >
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