How can I work with/around Gmail's SMTP outbound sending limits?

Question

I\'m using my Gmail Apps for Domain account to send email within my rails application for standard automated emails (user signup, forgot password, notify admin of new comment, e

Answer 1

You should be able to set the :user_name element in the hash in the mailer in the same fashion as in the configuration, namely by doing:

ActionMailer::Base.smtp_settings[:user_name] = 'new_user_name'

Although this may require some extra code to force a reload of any internal action mailer config (not tested this myself)