Rails - Jun 2008 - ActionMailer Fails To Send Emails Post Authentication

I am trying to send emails via actionmailer.

It was working fine before and now suddenly what was working is no
longer working!

I have one version of the application running in production and whenever
I try to run it in production I get the error No connection could be
made because the target machine actively refused it. - connect(2)  (see
details in the attached text file)

Now when I try to run the same application on the local machine (Dev)
with a local mail server running on it I get the error :

Net::SMTPAuthenticationError in AccessrequestsController#create
535 Authentication Failed (see details in the text file attached).

The actionmailer settings for production are :
ActionMailer::Base.smtp_settings = {
 :address => "localhost",
 :port => 25,
 :domain => "letter4sure.com",
 :authentication => :login,
 :user_name => "CHECKED_THIS_ADMIN_USER/PWD_IT_WORKS",
 :password => "CHECKED_THIS_ADMIN_USER/PWD_IT_WORKS"
}

For the local machine it is :

ActionMailer::Base.smtp_settings = {
 :address => "localhost",
 :port => 25,
 :domain => "localhost",
 :authentication => :login,
 :user_name => "CHECKED_THIS_ADMIN_USER/PWD_IT_WORKS",
 :password => "CHECKED_THIS_ADMIN_USER/PWD_IT_WORKS"
}

When I remove all authentication user name and password information I
can send emails beautifully but that is BAD! because my mail server
could be used as a relaying station. That is unacceptable.
So help would be appreciated in deciphering the mysteries of
ActionMailer please.
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Ok I figured out the problem or atleast I think I did. I have to create 
a separate account with user and password (NOT admin) that can send 
emails. then the following works ... atleast for now.

Ather Shiraz wrote:
> I am trying to send emails via actionmailer.
> 
> It was working fine before and now suddenly what was working is no
> longer working!
> 
> Now when I try to run the same application on the local machine (Dev)
> with a local mail server running on it I get the error :
> 
> Net::SMTPAuthenticationError in AccessrequestsController#create
> 535 Authentication Failed (see details in the text file attached).
> 
> The actionmailer settings for production are :
> ActionMailer::Base.smtp_settings = {
>  :address => "localhost",
>  :port => 25,
>  :domain => "letter4sure.com",
>  :authentication => :login,
>  :user_name => "CHECKED_THIS_ADMIN_USER/PWD_IT_WORKS",
>  :password => "CHECKED_THIS_ADMIN_USER/PWD_IT_WORKS"
> }
> 
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