Rails ActionMailer Plugin for TLS encryption

Question

Can anyone point me to a plugin/directions for enabling emails through a smtp server requiring encryption? I've done some searching and found http://agilewebdevelopment.com/plugins/actionmailer_tls , but the download is down, a pattern repeated with several other plugins also.

Answer 1

If you are using at least Ruby 1.8.7, you don't need any plugins, you just need to configure ActionMailer to use TLS by putting :enable_starttls_auto => true into config.action_mailer.smtp_settings.