Comments on: Fixing the “ActionMailer: Hostname not match server certificate” Error

By: Scottie

Scottie — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 11:55:02 +0000

I figured if I stuck it in environment.rb, it works in production, development, etc.

By: concept47

concept47 — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 07:18:17 +0000

Thanks for the post, I used it to figure out a better way to do the same thing.
Just specify this in environments/production.rb
config.action_mailer.smtp_settings = {:enable_starttls_auto => false}

Thanks again!

By: Scottie

Scottie — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 21:37:57 +0000

True. In my case, it was all localhost.

By: stephen

stephen — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 21:07:36 +0000

fyi, the tls “feature” as you call it is important if your application is contacting the mail server over the internet. otherwise you are sending your mail account password in clear text every time you connect.

in that case, the better fix for this issue is to actually generate the appropriate certificate on your app machine for the email host.

of course if it is all localhost or intranet, you’re probably a little better off when disabling this.

By: Martin

Martin — Thu, 06 May 2010 18:33:46 +0000

Thanks

That’s a GREAT solution, not a monkey patch!