From: Robert McGovern Date: 2003-09-03T18:22:49+09:00 Subject: Re: Email with attachments? ||That was the first thing I tried ... used "smtp.everestkc.net" but it gave ||me the following error: ||so I thought it must be something else. What do you say ? ||C:/ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/net/protocol.rb:188:in `on_read_timeout': socket read ||timeout (60 sec) (TimeoutError) silly question, but do you have a proxy you go through to the net?