From: tsumeruby@...
Date: 2005-12-29T20:01:00+09:00
Subject: Re: Need Help Using Net::SMTP

On Thursday 29 December 2005 06:59 pm, Dan Diebolt wrote:

http://blade.nagaokaut.ac.jp/cgi-bin/scat.rb/ruby/ruby-talk/167128
The  "250 Mail queued for delivery.\n" message is from the mail server. You 
may be getting caught by a spam filter. The email is supposed to be received.

Tsume

> 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