From: Reimer Behrends <behrends@...>
Date: 2004-01-04T05:26:46+09:00
Subject: Re: Best way to send mail in ruby

Bauduin Raphael (rb@raphinou.com) wrote:
[...]
>  So, do I have to combine both to send a mail? Isn't there simply
>  something like
> 
>  Mail::send_mail(from, to, subject, body) ?

Assuming that you have sendmail/exim/postfix or something else with
sendmail-compatible options on your system (which is pretty much
any UNIX MTA), the script below should suffice.

The -oi option prevents a line with a single dot to be interpreted
as the end of the message; the -t option tells the MTA to extract
the To address from the headers; the -oem message tells the mailer
to deliver an error message to the sender if the command fails;
and -odb delivers the message in the background rather than
suspending the calling process.

You may have to change the path to /usr/sbin/sendmail on some
systems.

			Reimer Behrends


SENDMAIL = "/usr/lib/sendmail -oi -t -oem -odb"

def sendmail(from, to, subject, body)
  File.popen(SENDMAIL, "w") do
    | pipe |
    pipe.puts "From: #{from}"
    pipe.puts "To: #{to}"
    pipe.puts "Subject: #{subject}"
    pipe.puts
    pipe.puts body
  end
end