From: Park Heesob <phasis68@...>
Date: 2006-04-03T10:12:52+09:00
Subject: Re: ruby to send email attachments


Hi,

>From: rtilley <rtilley@vt.edu>
>Reply-To: ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org
>To: ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org (ruby-talk ML)
>Subject: ruby to send email attachments
>Date: Sun, 2 Apr 2006 23:23:45 +0900
>
>I searched the news group and found a script that sends email with 
>attachments. I modified it a bit to loop through an array sending to 
>multiple recipients, however, it seems that addresses with a '_' or a '-' 
>in them will sometimes produce an error on sending.
>
insert this line
    smtp.set_debug_output $stderr
after the line
    smtp = Net::SMTP.new(@server)
and examine the debug messages.

>The script is too long to post here. Here is a link to it:
>http://filebox.vt.edu/users/rtilley/public/email.rb
>
>Would someone look it over to see what I'm doing wrong? I'm relatively new 
>to Ruby, so I'm sure I've just done something wrong. Perhaps it's how I 
>read the email addresses into an array?
>
>Also, how would I insert a message-id into emails? Our mail server 
>complains when a message comes through without one and inserts one itself. 
>No big deal really, it just raises the spam score a tiny bit (not that I 
>spam)... these are legit emails.
>
insert message-id like this
      wa.write("Message-ID: <000001c656e2$a8217380$0100007f@localhost>\r\n")
after the line
      wa.write("MIME-Version: 1.0\r\n")

>Thanks to anyone who can offer help or advice!
>Brad
>
Hope this helps,

Park Heesob