getting the action mailer recipe to actually work, no thanks to default setup not playing nice with local postfix :-/

cookbook/014/05.rb

@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ require 'action_mailer'
 
 class SimpleMailer < ActionMailer::Base
     def simple_message(recipient)
-        from 'dan@meatballhat.com'
+        from 'daniel.buch@gmail.com'
         recipients recipient
         subject 'A single-part message for you'
         body 'This message has a plain text body.'
@@ -13,12 +13,16 @@ end
 
 
 puts 'generated message:'
-puts SimpleMailer.simple_message('me@localhost')
+puts SimpleMailer.simple_message('daniel.buch+rubytest@gmail.com')
 
-ActionMailer::Base.sendmail_settings = {
-    :address => 'localhost',
-    :port => 25,
-    :domain => 'localhost'
+
+ActionMailer::Base.smtp_settings = {
+    :tls => true,
+    :address => 'smtp.gmail.com',
+    :port => "587",
+    :domain => 'gmail.com',
+    :user_name => 'daniel.buch@gmail.com',
+    :password => STDIN.readline
 }
 
-SimpleMailer.simple_message('me@localhost').deliver
+SimpleMailer.simple_message('daniel.buch+rubytest@gmail.com').deliver