From: Jamey Cribbs <cribbsj@...>
Date: 2000-12-14T02:06:18+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:7160] Hello and a question.

Hi! �I'm extremely new to Ruby. �I come mainly from a Perl background, with 
about a zillion other languages thrown in. �:) �I bought "Programming Ruby" 
(excellent book, so far) and am working my way through it.

I am attempting to send an email via SMTP. �I am doing the following code:

require 'net/smtp'
smtp = Net::SMTP.new
smtp.start('130.102.202.23')

But I get a "Connection refused - connect(2)".

The SMTP port on our email server is 25 ( I have even tried specifying that) 
and I have tried a bunch of different angles on this. �I can connect using 
Perl, Rebol, etc.

Does anyone have an idea what I am doing wrong?

Jamey Cribbs