From: Brian Marick <marick@...>
Date: 2001-08-20T01:07:03+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:19991] Re: SMTP authentication

This works with my ISP. Thanks.

At 08:42 AM 8/17/01, you wrote:
>Brian Marick <marick@testing.com> writes:
>
> > Net::SMTP#start takes either :cram_md5 or :plain. My ISP doesn't like
> > either, and responds with
> >
> > 500 Command unrecognized: "AUTH CRAM-MD5
>
>What happens if you don't specify a user name or password? In the
>news2mail gateway, I just do
>
>      def send_mail(head, body)
>        smtp = Net::SMTP.new
>        smtp.start(Params::SMTP_SERVER)
>        smtp.ready(Params::MAIL_SENDER, Params::MAILING_LIST) do |a|
>          a.write head
>          a.write "#{Params::LOOP_FLAG}\r\n"
>          a.write "\r\n"
>          a.write body
>        end
>      end
>
>
>Dave


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