From: Carl Youngblood <carlyoungblood@...>
Date: 2001-08-20T08:37:25+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:19999] Net::SMTP::start times out on Windows 98 Ruby 1.6.4

I'm trying to send a test e-mail to myself on my ISP's mail server:

require 'net/smtp'

smtp = Net::SMTP.new
puts "attempting to connect to mail server...\n";
smtp.start('mail.csolutions.net')          # script times out trying to
finish this part
puts "connected.\n"
smtp.ready('carlyoungblood@email.com', 'carlyoungblood@bigfoot.com') do |a|
   a.write "Subject: Test1\r\n"
   a.write "\r\n"
   a.write "And so is this"
end


My ISP's mail server doesn't require authentication.  I've tried this on a
number of mail servers with the same result. Any ideas what might be wrong?
I'm relatively unfamiliar with Ruby.

Thanks,
Carl Youngblood