From: Daniel Berger <djberg96@...>
Date: 2008-08-09T00:12:59+09:00
Subject: Re: Net::SMTP and Unknown User



On Aug 7, 9:08 am, botp <botp...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 10:43 PM, Daniel Berger <djber...@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.

I'm afraid I don't follow. Perhaps a bit of sample code will help:

require 'net/smtp'

mhost = 'mailgate.work.com'
from  = 'daniel.berger@work.com'

# First email is valid, second one is not
to  = ['daniel.berger@work.com', 'foo.bar@work.com']

# Raises a Net::SMTPFatalError
Net::SMTP.start(mhost, 25){ |smtp|
   smtp.send_message("hello", from, to)
}

If this is the wrong approach, I'm all ears.

Thanks,

Dan