From: Jen <fluffy_bunny_1988@...>
Date: 2010-09-08T13:46:02+09:00
Subject: Problem connecting to hotmail using the pony gem

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     Hello,

I have only just started seariously playing with Ruby.
I have a script that needs to e-mail data it has gathered to a specific 
address. I want to use my hotmail account to send out the e-mail until I 
sort my own mail server, but can't connect using pony.

my code is:

     Pony.mail(:to => "Myaddress@hotmail.co.uk", :from => 
"Myaddress@hotmail.co.uk", :via => :smtp,
:smtp => {:host => "smtp.live.com", :port => "25", :tls => true, :user 
=> "fMyUserName",
:password => "MyPassword", :auth => :plain,
#:login, :cram_md5,
:domain => "localhost:chicken"}, :subject => "Optelec tweets", :body => 
"This is a test")

I am trying to send the email to myself to check if I can receive it. 
Does it matter that the 'from' and 'to' addresses are the same.
When I run this (with the correct username and password) the connection 
times out.
Uncommenting the commented line above gives errors when running, and I 
think this line is actually gmail specific.

If there is a better way of doing this please let me know.

Regards,
Jen.

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