From: botp <botpena@...>
Date: 2008-08-08T00:08:57+09:00
Subject: Re: Net::SMTP and Unknown User

On Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 10:43 PM, Daniel Berger <djberg96@gmail.com> wrote:
> Problem: Sometimes people leave the company and their managers aren't
> always good about updating things. Since Net::SMTP#send_message seems
> to be an "all or nothing" method (i.e. either an email is sent to
> everyone or no email is sent to anyone), I'm not sure what to do about
> this situation.

forgive me if i dont get you right, but why don't you send/route the
mails to a real mail server and/or a mailing list server? A mail
server has builtin routing/retry/timeout mechnisms and
understands/implems the full smtp protocol.

kind regards -botp