From: culley harrelson <culley@...>
Date: 2003-12-03T01:55:04+09:00
Subject: protocol.rb (1.6) doesn't like VERP style addressing

I am using NET::SMPT to send messages with VERP style addressing:

my-newsletter+me=example.com@example.com

And I get:

/usr/local/lib/ruby/1.6/net/protocol.rb:221:in `error!': 501 "501 Bad 
address syntax" (Net::ProtoSyntaxError)
         from /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.6/net/protocol.rb:385:in `reply_must'
         from /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.6/net/protocol.rb:376:in `check_reply'
         from /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.6/net/protocol.rb:390:in `getok'
         from /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.6/net/smtp.rb:357:in `mailfrom'
         from /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.6/net/smtp.rb:357:in `atomic'
         from /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.6/net/smtp.rb:357:in `mailfrom'
         from /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.6/net/smtp.rb:298:in `do_ready'
         from /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.6/net/smtp.rb:281:in `send_mail'

I have ruby 1.8 on my development machine (os x) and it seems to be 
fixed in 1.8.  My production machine is FreeBSD and upgrading ruby to 
1.8 on freeBSD was a convolluted process last time I tried (anyone have 
suggestions for this?).  Is it possible to just Upgrade protocol.rb?

culley