Rails 3 ActionMailer Google Apps: Timeout::Error - ruby-on-rails-3

Question

I've been trying to fix this for way too many hours. I looked at Railscast, official Rails Guides, lots of blog posts and none of them help.
I'm trying to send email from my Rails 3 app using ActionMailer 2.2.5 via my Google Apps account. I verified the username and password. I can see on the console the message to be sent. I'm getting a Timeout::Error from the deliver call in my controller.
Can someone shed any light on this?
Here's the code:
# config/environments/development.rb
config.action_mailer.raise_delivery_errors = true
config.action_mailer.delivery_method = :smtp
config.action_mailer.smtp_settings = {
:enable_starttls_auto => true,
:tls => true,
:address => 'smtp.gmail.com',
:port => "587",
:authentication => :plain,
:domain => 'test.com',
:user_name => 'user#test.com',
:password => 'mypass'
}
# app/mailers/test_mailer.rb
class PostMailer < ActionMailer::Base
default :from => "no-reply#test.com"
def activate_email( post )
#post = post
mail( :to => post.email,
:subject => "Testing" )
end
end
# app/controllers/test_controller.rb
class TestController < ApplicationController
def create
#post = Post.new( params[:post] )
TestMailer.activate_email( #post ).deliver
end
end

Answer 1

I would try two things. First off make port a number instead of a string:
:port => 587
Also in my code I have the following line before the actionmailer config:
Net::SMTP.enable_tls(OpenSSL::SSL::VERIFY_NONE)
Is there any reason that you are using an old version of actionmailer with rails 3? I would recommend using the version of actionmailer that corresponds to your rails version.
Hope this helps.