Hi Amit, basic steps are:

1 - Install action_mailer_tls:

./script/plugin install git://github.com/collectiveidea/action_mailer_optional_tls.git

or

ruby script/plugin install git://github.com/collectiveidea/action_mailer_optional_tls.git (in Windows)

2 - set up the account in environment.rb. My setup is only the following (similar of Sugiarto's setting):

  config.action_mailer.smtp_settings = {
  :tls => true,
  :address => 'smtp.gmail.com',
  :port => '587',
  :domain => 'mydomain',
  :authentication => :plain,
  :user_name => 'my_email',
  :password => 'my_password' 
  }

3 - Create a model to send the mail, for example:

class Notifier < ActionMailer::Base

  def notify(customer,sent_at = Time.now)
    subject    'Notification to customer'
    recipients customer.email
    from       'my_email'
    sent_on    Time.now
    
    body[:customer] = customer 
    
    part :content_type => "text/html" ,
    :body => render_message("notify" , :customer => customer)
  end
end

4 - have a template with the contents of email, eg:

in app/view/notifier/notify.html.erb

Test of Email 

Dear Customer: 

This email is for.....

5 - Deliver the email, using for example deliver

Notifier.deliver_notify(customer)

I hope it was useful.

Regards

this is my mailer

class Emails < ActionMailer::Base default :from => "Cobboc " def inviteApplied(recipient)

@account = recipient
mail(:to => recipient.email, :subject => "Invite Application received", :content_type => "text/html")

end end

these are my settings for using gmail

config.action_mailer.delivery_method = :smtp
config.action_mailer.smtp_settings = {

:address => "smtp.gmail.com",
:port => 587,
:domain => "mysite.com",
:user_name => "username",
:password => "password",
:authentication => "plain",
:enable_starttls_auto => true

}

i also added these lines to the environment file, development.rb

config.action_mailer.raise_delivery_errors = true config.action_mailer.perform_deliveries = true