Just figured out the answer. It was to turn off the SSL verification like so:
require 'pony'
class Email
def send_email
Pony.mail({
:to => 'cole@macpractice.com',
:from => 'blaine@macpractice.com',
:subject => 'test',
:body => "yo dude",
:via => :smtp,
:via_options => {
:address => 'smtp.macpractice.com',
:port => '10040',
:user_name => 'blaine',
:password => '',
:authentication => :cram_md5,
:domain => "localhost.localdomain",
:openssl_verify_mode => OpenSSL::SSL::VERIFY_NONE,
:enable_starttls_auto => false
}
})
end
end
setting the starttls_auto to false and the ssl verify mode to verify none creates an smtp email without the ssl verification.