From: Jamey Cribbs <cribbsj@...>
Date: 2000-12-14T03:12:39+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:7165] Re: Hello and a question.

Guy, it worked!

I'm still not completely sure why it worked, but I am going to go over your 
email a few more times and try to figure out what's going on.

A follow up question, if I may.  Why couldn't I just say:

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

I tried it but it doesn't work.  What am I missing?

Thanks very much for your help!

Jamey.


On Wednesday 13 December 2000 12:28, you wrote:
> >>>>> "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