From: Dinakar Desai <Desai.Dinakar@...>
Date: 2001-12-25T02:41:38+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:29403] Re: Net SMTP

Hello:
Following code works.
#!/usr/bin/env ruby

require 'net/smtp'
smtp = Net::SMTP.new('smtpserver@someplace.)
msg =<<STR
This is test message
STR
smtp.start{|mail|
mail.send_mail(msg,from_address, to_address)
}

Hope this helps

Dinakar

Jack Dempsey wrote:

> hi all,
>
> I'm tackling the next area of my ruby development: the SMTP class. I can't seem to get it working correctly though...
> if I do the following:
>
> %sendmail email@address
> this is a test
> ^D
> %
>
> I get the e-mail correctly. However, when I try running a simple SMTP script, I get an error:
>
> irb(main):001:0> require 'net/smtp'
> true
> irb(main):002:0> smtp = Net::SMTP::new('localhost')
> #<Net::SMTP localhost:25 open=false>
> irb(main):003:0> smtp.start
> Errno::EINVAL: Invalid argument - "connect(2)"
>         from /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.6/net/protocol.rb:470:in `new'
>         from /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.6/net/protocol.rb:470:in `connect'
>         from /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.6/net/protocol.rb:469:in `timeout'
>         from /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.6/net/protocol.rb:469:in `connect'
>         from /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.6/net/protocol.rb:463:in `initialize'
>         from /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.6/net/protocol.rb:160:in `new'
>         from /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.6/net/protocol.rb:160:in `conn_socket'
>         from /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.6/net/protocol.rb:149:in `connect'
>         from /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.6/net/protocol.rb:143:in `_start'
>         from /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.6/net/protocol.rb:135:in `start'
>         from (irb):3
>
> I'm thinking this is probably some silly error of mine, but I am copying it word for word from Ruby In a Nutshell...can anyone point out my ineptitude?
>
> Thanks!
> Jack
>
> ps. Hal Fulton, I believe you read this list: your book just showed up and I'm hurrying to finish this so I can get back to it. Looks great so far!

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