From: Justin Collins <collinsj@...>
Date: 2006-06-16T02:49:16+09:00
Subject: Re: Getting Net/SMTP to work for me.

Peter Bailey wrote:
> I've managed to get a simple mail message sent to myself, but, it leaves 
> a lot to be desired. I get an e-mail from my server, to me, but, there's 
> no body to the mail, even though I created some message text in a 
> "message" variable. Also, in the e-mail sent to me, the "to" field in 
> the e-mail is blank, with my e-mail address under cc: as a blind copy, 
> (bcc: Peter Bailey/BNA Inc). Can someone help me put in a subject line, 
> and, get my timestamp to work as my e-mail body? And, I need to put the 
> name of the file that I'm telling people about in the subject line, too. 
> That's in a variable.
>
> (1)   message = "Time Sent: 'Time.now'"
> (2)   Net::SMTP.start('notes1', 25) do |smtp|
> (3)   smtp.send_message message,
> (4)                 'pbailey@bna.com',
> (5)                 'pbailey@bna.com'
> end
>
> Thanks for any help.
>
>   
Hi Peter,

Please see the Net/SMTP documentation [1]. It gives you an example of a 
message. Things like the 'to' and 'from' addresses all go in the message.

Here's a simpler example (untested):

message = <<EOS
From: Bob <bob@bob.com>
To: Someone <someone@bob.com>
Subject: Hi There!

Hi Someone,

How's it going?

Love,
Bob
EOS

require 'net/smtp'
Net::SMTP.start('your.smtp.server', 25) do |smtp|
	smtp.send_message(message, 'bob@bob.com', 'someone@bob.com')
end



Hope that helps.

-Justin


[1]http://ruby-doc.org/stdlib/libdoc/net/smtp/rdoc/classes/Net/SMTP.html