This is quite a specific question, and I have had no luck on the grails nabble forum, so I thought I would post here. I am using the grails mail plug-in, but I think my question is a general one about using authsmtp as an email gateway from my server.
I am having trouble sending mail from my app using authsmtp. I have installed and configured the mail plugin and was originally using my ISP'
s SMTP server to send mails. However when I deployed to AWS EC2 this failed because my elastic IP was blocked by the SMTP host. So I bought myself an authsmtp account and set up my server email address as an accepted one at authsmtp.
I then changed my configuration in SecurityConfig.groovy to point to the authsmtp server that I had been designated...
mailHost = "mail.authsmtp.com"
mailUsername = "myusername"
mailPassword = "mypassword"
mailProtocol = "smtp"
mailFrom = "
[email protected]"
mailPort = 2525
...and I'm just trying to get this to work locally before I deploy back up to AWS. Sending mail fails and in my log I have this exception:
2010-02-13 10:59:44,218 [http-8080-1] ERROR service.EmailerService - Failed to send emails: Failed messages: com.sun.mail.smtp.SMTPSendFailedException: 513 5.0.0 Your email system must authenticate before sending mail.
org.springframework.mail.MailSendException; nested exception details (1) are:
Failed message 1:
com.sun.mail.smtp.SMTPSendFailedException: 513 5.0.0 Your email system must authenticate before sending mail. at
com.sun.mail.smtp.SMTPTransport.issueSendCommand(SMTPTransport.java:1388)
at com.sun.mail.smtp.SMTPTransport.mailFrom(SMTPTransport.java:959)
at com.sun.mail.smtp.SMTPTransport.sendMessage(SMTPTransport.java:583)
I'm a bit lost since the username and password I provide in the
configuration are definitely correct.
A terse and not very helpful conversation with authsmtp support suggests
that I need to MD5 and/or base64 encode my credentials before sending, so my
question is in three parts...
1) any idea what'
s going on with the failure and why that message is
appearing?
2) how would I encode the credentials to pass to authsmtp and how would I
configure that for the mail plugin
3) has anyone successfully connected and sent mail through authsmtp from the
mail plugin and specifically from AWS EC2?