From: ts <decoux@...>
Date: 2000-12-14T02:28:35+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:7163] Re: Hello and a question.

>>>>> "J" == Jamey Cribbs <cribbsj@oakwood.org> writes:

J> smtp = Net::SMTP.new
J> smtp.start('130.102.202.23')

 When #start is a method it take arguments :

: start( helo_domain = Socket.gethostname, \
         account = nil, password = nil, authtype = nil )
: start( helo_domain = Socket.gethostname, \
         account = nil, password = nil, authtype = nil ) {|smtp| .... }

 When #start is a _class_ method (i.e. Net::SMTP.start) its syntax is

: start( address = 'localhost', port = 25, *protoargs )
: start( address = 'localhost', port = 25, *protoargs ) {|smtp| .... }
  is equal to Net::SMTP.new( address, port ).start( *protoargs )


 This mean that in your example it try to open the smtp server "localhost"
 (no server was specified in #new)

 Try with

  smtp = Net::SMTP.start('130.102.202.23')



Guy Decoux