Kimball,

I may be wrong, but I believe that error message is generated from an
error handling block that rescues all errors, so the error could be
caused by something other than ActionMailer. Edit the code and remove
the block to see what error is being generated.

You can also run the functional and unit tests on the user system by
typing "rake default" at your command line.

- Derek

On 9/9/05, Kimball Larsen <kimball@[...].com>  wrote:
>  I'm new to RoR - but learning quickly.
>  
>  I've run through all the simple tutorials on how to start a basic RoR
>  app, and have purchased the Agile book on RoR and gone through the
>  web store tutorial it offers.
>  
>  I'm now beginning a new application and am seemingly stuck almost
>  before I've begun.
>  
>  This application will require a valid username/password to access,
>  and following the suggestion in the Agile book, I decided to try out
>  the Salted Hash Login Generator.  Following the instructions found on
>  the SHLG wiki: http://wiki.rubyonrails.com/rails/show/
>  SaltedLoginGeneratorQuickstart I was able (with some slight tweaking
>  to accomodate a few extra fields I have in my users table) to get the
>  login screen to appear.  "Great!" I thought - didn't take very long,
>  and actually looks like it will work.  Course, my users table was at
>  this point empty, so I hit the link to create a new account, filled
>  in all the required info, and Boom (in your best Steve Job's voice) I
>  get the following message:
>  
>  "Error creating account: confirmation email not sent"
>  
>  So, I crack open the development log to see what's up, and I see the
>  following: (some items altered to protect the guilty)
>  
>  Sent mail:
>  Date: Fri, 9 Sep 2005 09:57:49 -0600
>  From: valid@[...].com
>  To: testing@[...].com
>  Subject: [My App] Welcome to My App!
>  Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8
>  
>  Welcome to My App, jh kjh.
>  
>  Your login credentials are:
>  
>     login:    testing2
>     password: testing
>  
>  Please click on the following link to confirm your registration:
>  
>  <a href="http://localhost:3000/user/welcome?user[id]
>  =21&key=176e10ed73abd23c2c1c4393d3099ac19a4d9ac5">Click me!</a>
>  
>  http://localhost:3000/user/welcome?user[id]
>  =21&key=176e10ed73abd23c2c1c4393d3099ac19a4d9ac5
>  
>     SQL (0.079510)   ROLLBACK
>  Rendering  within layouts/scaffold
>  Rendering user/signup (200 OK)
>  Completed in 0.23645 (4 reqs/sec) | Rendering: 0.02537 (10%) | DB:
>  0.08675 (36%) [http://localhost/user/signup]
>  
>  
>  So, I think to myself that the error must be with my email server...
>  I must not have set up ActionMailer to do SMTP auth correctly.  Here
>  are the settings (again, some items altered a bit): (this is from
>  config/environments/development.rb):
>  
>  ActionMailer::Base.server_settings = {
>     :address => "192.168.1.4",
>     :port => 25,
>     :domain => "domain.com",
>     :username => "someTest@domain.com",
>     :password => "Secret",
>     :authentication => :login
>  }
>  
>  So, after verifying that the settings in development.rb appear
>  correct, I try again, with the same result.  Next I took a look at
>  the mail server logs, and find that there is never even a connection
>  attempt being made by my machine.  It's as though ActionMailer is
>  just not trying. (or at least not trying hard enough...)
>  
>  I've dug through the ActionMailer docs to see if I can make it any
>  noisier about what is going wrong, but I can't find anything other
>  than to redirect the logs it is already producing to another
>  destination.
>  
>  What may I be doing wrong?
>  
>  Thanks!
>  
>  -- Kimball
>  
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