From: Dan Diebolt <dandiebolt@...>
Date: 2005-12-29T18:59:06+09:00
Subject: Need Help Using Net::SMTP

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I am trying to send email from my comcast email account (say me@comcast.net) to my yahoo email accout (say me@yahoo.com) from a ruby script using net/smtp:
   
  require 'net/smtp'
Net::SMTP.start("smtp.comcast.net", 25,"localhost","user","pass") do |smtp|
  smtp.send_message "hello","me@comcast.net","me@yahoo.com" 
end
   
  After trying the above ruby in irb I get the following message with no email delivered:
   
  => "250 Mail queued for delivery.\n"
   
  I don't understand how the third argument to Net::SMTP.start should be specified; its called "helo" and documentation says it defaults to 'localhost.localdomain'. I would appreciate it if anyone could point out what I am doing wrong.
   
  I am pretty sure I have the smtp, pop3 and ports identified correctly as I can send email using the command line utility postie (http://www.infradig.com/postie/index.shtml):
   
  postie -esmtp -host:smtp.comcast.net -to:me@yahoo.com -from:me@comcast.net -s:subject -msg:hello -user:user -pass:pass 
   
  #Incoming mail (POP3): mail.comcast.net 
#Incoming mail (POP3): 110
#Outgoing mail (SMTP): smtp.comcast.net 
#Outgoing mail (SMTP): port is set to 25
   
  

		
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