From: Sean O'Dell <sean@...>
Date: 2002-03-02T14:27:41+09:00
Subject: Re: Net::SMTP ECONNREFUSED

Nevermind, I lied...I had forgotten a parameter.  The example in your book
worked, but I don't get the here document thing quite yet.

    Sean

"Sean O'Dell" <sean@celsoft.com> wrote in message
news:97Zf8.16859$Xn2.446268588@newssvr21.news.prodigy.com...
> "Dave Thomas" <Dave@PragmaticProgrammer.com> wrote in message
> news:m2y9hb4lnm.fsf@zip.local.thomases.com...
> > "Sean O'Dell" <sean@celsoft.com> writes:
> >
> > > smtp = Net::SMTP.new
> > > smtp.start("celsoft.com")
> >
> > Are you running a SMTP server on localhost? If not, you'll see that
> > error. The name you pass to 'start' is the HELO domain, not the
> > address of the server. You can specify the server as the parameter to
> ::new.
> >
> > Also, the SMTP interface is changing, and the zero-argument
> > constructor no longer works. In general, it's probably better to use
> > the SMTP::start method to do the whole thing:
> >
> >
> >     Net::SMTP.start( 'your.smtp.server', 25 ) {|smtp|
> >         smtp.sendmail <<EndOfMail, 'your@mail.address', 'to@some.domain'
> >     From: Your Name <your@mail.address>
> >     To: Dest Address <to@some.domain>
> >     Subject: test mail
> >     Date: Sat, 23 Jun 2001 16:26:43 +0900
> >     Message-Id: <unique.message.id.string@some.domain>
> >
> >     This is test mail.
> >     EndOfMail
> >     }
>
> I tried it this way, but I kept getting the error that EndOfMail couldn't
be
> found, so I went with something similar out of your book.  That gave me no
> syntax headache, but I still get connection refused.
>
>     Sean
>
>