From: Stefano Crocco <stefano.crocco@...>
Date: 2010-12-19T16:54:10+09:00
Subject: Re: variable problem

On Sunday 19 December 2010 11:06:29 Derril Lucci wrote:
> so i am writing a program that sends email via an smtp server on gmail.
> the problem is that my email has a "." in it.  the issue arises at the
> end of the following code block:
> 
> Net::SMTP.start('smtp.gmail.com', 25, 'em.ail@gmail.com', 'em.ail',
> 'password', :em.ail)
> 
> on the :em.ail part, it throws an error saying that ail is an undefined
> method for em.  just curious if there is a way to represent 'em.ail' in
> a way that will work.
> 
> thanks in advance.
> 
> cheers,
>   dlucci

:'em.ail' should work.

Stefano