From: Alex <imphasing@...>
Date: 2009-05-27T04:54:56+09:00
Subject: Re: download a comic strip and email to myself with Ruby?

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You can use any SMTP server to email the images. I would just use Net::SMTP
with whatever SMTP server you happen to be using. It's true that some ISPs
offer SMTP servers, but smtp.<your_isp>.com may not be the naming convention
that your ISP uses.

Remember, you're going to need to attach the image to the email as well, so
you'll need to create a multipart message, with the image data encoded in
base64. I'm sure there's a library that can handle that for you, although
I'm not very familiar with using ruby to manipulate email messages.



Alex


On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 3:15 PM, Jian Lin <blueskybreeze@gmail.com> wrote:

> Alex wrote:
> > I would use Hpricot to parse the HTML and get the image, then any of the
> > Ruby email libraries to send it to yourself. It's really a trivial
> > problem,
> > but if you're having specific issues, I'm sure many of the people on
> > this
> > list would be willing to help.
>
> is it true that we just use the smtp.my-isp.com to send it?  is there
> any other way?
>
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