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Quoth Mohit Sindhwani on Thursday 13 September 2007 09:49:49 pm:
> Michael Linfield wrote:
> > Ive tried several examples from numerous books trying to send mail with
> > net smtp and i never really get the emails.
> >
> > require 'net/smtp'
> >
> > message =3D <<MESSAGE_END
> > From: Nobody <nobody@power.net>
> > To: Someone <someone@hotmail.com>
> > Subject: Test SMTP
> >
> > i pray that itll work
> > MESSAGE_END
> >
> > Net::SMTP.start('mx1.hotmail.com') do |smtp|
> > smtp.send_message message, 'nobody@power.net', 'someone@hotmail.com'
> > end
> >
> > #####
> > This was one example, i receive no errors indicating a problem but when
> > checking my email IE: someone@hotmail.com i dont have it in any
> > folders, not inbox or junkmail.
> >
> > Another version that i modified to fit my own needs was this ----
> >
> > require 'net/smtp'
> >
> > puts "Sender: "
> > sender =3D gets.chomp
> > puts "Recipient: "
> > rcpt =3D gets.chomp
> > puts "Message: "
> > msg =3D gets.chomp
> >
> > smtp =3D Net::SMTP.new('mx1.hotmail.com')
> >
> > smtp.start()
> >
> > smtp.ready(sender, rcpt) do |mail|
> >
> > mail.write msg
> >
> > end
> >
> > #########
> > once again no errors
> >
> > any ideas why i might not be getting the emails?
> > =20
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> I know I'm not directly answering your question, but there's a sample on=
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> my blog:
> http://notepad.onghu.com/ruby
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> I think it would be good for you to try to send it to some other email=20
> address, perhaps, you are missing some fields which make your mail look=20
> like spam and is being dropped by something along the way?
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> Cheers,
> Mohit.
> 9/14/2007 | 12:49 PM.

A lot of ISPs block people from having mail servers on their local machines,
as this is something zombie networks tend to do rather than joe idiot user.

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Konrad Meyer <konrad@tylerc.org> http://konrad.sobertillnoon.com/

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