Email causing SocketError on Heroku?
Getting a SocketError while sending emails on heroku, using sendgrid? It may be some gmail env vars.
While working on a project that I just inherited, we enabled sendgrid for our heroku app. Sending an email raised this error:
SocketError (getaddrinfo: Name or service not known)
Google searches indicated ActiveMailer configuration issues, but Heroku was pretty clear:
Rails apps using ActionMailer will just work, no setup is needed after the addon is installed.
While ensuring that RACK_ENV was set correctly (when all else fails), I found these two settings:
GMAIL_SMTP_PASSWORD => #blahblah#
GMAIL_SMTP_USER => admin@xyz.com
Removing them fixed my email. Sendgrid is working fine.
Armed with this evidence, I found tech_sending_email_with_gmail
And so… someone had set up the server for gmail, but something about it was failing now.
Now I know. And you do too.
Note: this is just one cause of this error.
Matt Scilipoti
Founder of Possiamo Consulting LLC
matts@possiamo.com
