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

The comment box was becoming too restrictive for my questions. Changing the ActionMailer::Base.smtp_settings hash dynamically works as expected for me, so I suspect there is some other factor at play here. Some things to try:

1. Are you using a TLS plugin? I used action_mailer_optional_tls with Rails 2.3.2 and Ruby 1.8.6.
2. What is being writing to the log/console?
3. You're changing the username but not the password: do all the noreply accounts have the same password?

Edit: more things to try

I'd have a good look at that smtp_tls.rb file mentioned in the comments to make sure nothing's hard-coded. Or remove it and try the plugin I linked above. To use it, you just need to add :tls => true to the smtp_settings hash.