Pony will not work in a production environment with current code.

[jnskender]

You have configured your production and development settings correctly but have not actually used them in the send_message helper. It should look like this -

    def send_message
      Pony.mail(
        :from => params[:name] + "<" + params[:email] + ">",
        :to => '____@gmail.com',
        :subject => params[:name] + " has contacted you",
        :body => params[:message],
        :via => :smtp,
        :via_options => {
          :address              => settings.email_address,
          :port                 => '587',
          :enable_starttls_auto => true,
          :user_name            => settings.email_user_name,
          :password             => settings.email_password,
          :authentication       => :plain,
          :domain               => settings.email_domain
        }
      )
    end