From: Alex Stahl <astahl@...5.com>
Date: 2010-09-09T02:47:08+09:00
Subject: Re: Problem connecting to hotmail using the pony gem

Hi Jen - Not too long ago I was involved w/ some code to do exactly this
- connect to hotmail.  Can't say that I know the solution that my
colleague developed before he left, but I do know that hotmail uses a
fair amount of ajax (or whatever M$ calls it).  That implies that it's
not as simple as sending an http request - there's some processing on
the login page that needs to happen first.

My next step in inheriting the work is to try to figure out how to parse
the javascript from ruby to send the proper request.  Looking at either
the harmony or rkelly gems to do so.  They might be suitable for what
you're trying as well.

-Alex

On Tue, 2010-09-07 at 23:46 -0500, Jen wrote:
> 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.