Complete Sample for ActionMailer to send email with GMAIL

I would like to test my ActionMailer class, but don't have an smtp server. I would like to use gmail to send such emails. Could someone provide a sample with all the necessary configurations both on google and whatever config files in the app.

thanks

From stackoverflow

• GMail has only SSL SMTP available, so you should create a SSL SMTP connection through Net::SMTP.

  Check this article:

  • How to use GMail SMTP server to send emails in Rails ActionMailer

• I do this with SSMTP. It acts as an SMTP server and proxies to a real SMTP server. On Unix (Ubuntu hardy in this case) it makes the system sendmail work properly.

  If you're also on Ubuntu, run apt-get install ssmtp to get it.

  This is a sample config file based on mine.

  #
  # Config file for sSMTP sendmail
  #
  # The person who gets all mail for userids < 1000
  # Make this empty to disable rewriting.
  root=postmaster
  
  # The place where the mail goes. The actual machine name is required no 
  # MX records are consulted. Commonly mailhosts are named mail.domain.com
  #mailhub=aspmx.l.google.com
  mailhub=smtp.gmail.com:587
  
  # Where will the mail seem to come from?
  rewriteDomain=example.com
  
  # The full hostname
  hostname=yourhostname.example.com
  
  # Are users allowed to set their own From: address?
  # YES - Allow the user to specify their own From: address
  # NO - Use the system generated From: address
  FromLineOverride=YES
  
  # should turn on SSL & auth to google's SMTP server
  # TODO change this user
  UseTLS=YES
  UseSTARTTLS=YES
  AuthUser=yourgoogleuser@example.com.com
  AuthPass=yourgooglepassword
  

  You will want to add this to your environment.rb or production/environment.rb:

  ActionMailer::Base.delivery_method = :sendmail
  ActionMailer::Base.raise_delivery_errors = true