From: Bill Guindon <agorilla@...>
Date: 2005-05-13T10:15:46+09:00
Subject: Re: ruby smtp and gmail

On 5/12/05, ruby talk <rubytalk@gmail.com> wrote:
> [code]
>      require 'net/smtp'
>     Net::SMTP.start('smtp.gmail.com', 25,'rubytalk@gmail.com' ,
> 'password' , :login ) do |smtp|
>       smtp.open_message_stream('rubytalk@gmail.com',
> ['rubytalk@gmail.com']) do |f|
>         f.puts 'From:rubytalk@gmail.com'
>         f.puts 'To:rubytalk@gmail.com'
>         f.puts 'Subject: test message'
>         f.puts
>         f.puts 'This is a test message.'
>       end
>     end
> [/code]
> 
> The error i get is
> /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/net/smtp.rb:680:in `check_response': 530 5.7.0
> Must issue a STARTTLS command first (Net::SMTPUnknownError)
>         from /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/net/smtp.rb:593:in `auth_cram_md5'
>         from /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/net/smtp.rb:592:in `critical'
>         from /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/net/smtp.rb:592:in `auth_cram_md5'
>         from /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/net/smtp.rb:571:in `__send__'
>         from /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/net/smtp.rb:571:in `authenticate'
>         from /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/net/smtp.rb:411:in `do_start'
>         from /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/net/smtp.rb:378:in `start'
>         from /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/net/smtp.rb:316:in `start'
>         from email.rb:2
> 
> any one find a fix for this or a work around? Am i doing it wrong?
> will it work with other smtp servers? I only have gmail to work with.
> BEcker
> 

I'm betting it's Gmail's ssl requirement.  More here...
http://www.google.com/search?q=gmail+use+secure+connection+ssl 

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Bill Guindon (aka aGorilla)