FYI:
I don’t think this is a very well know. It seems that, on some
operating systems, ActionMailer/SMTP crashes when it sends an email
with only a ‘.’ (aka a ‘dot’ or a ‘period’). Specifically, you get
Net::SMTPSyntaxError (502 Error: command not implemented):
Environment Details:
$ uname -a
Linux private1 2.6.15-26-server #1 SMP Thu Aug 3 04:09:15 UTC 2006
i686 GNU/Linux
$ ruby --version
ruby 1.8.4 (2005-12-24) [i686-linux]
$ rails --version
Rails 1.1.6
Email Sending Details (example.com used in place of real data):
Sent mail:
From: “Example User ([email protected])” [email protected]
Reply-To: [email protected]
To: [email protected]
Subject: test with a ‘.’ in the message
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8
.
Net::SMTPSyntaxError (502 Error: command not implemented
):
/usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/net/smtp.rb:680:in check_response' /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/net/smtp.rb:653:in getok’
/usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/net/smtp.rb:639:in quit' /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/net/smtp.rb:426:in do_finish’
/usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/net/smtp.rb:381:in start' /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/net/smtp.rb:316:in start’
/usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionmailer-1.2.5/lib/action_mailer/base.rb:511:in
perform_delivery_smtp' /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionmailer-1.2.5/lib/action_mailer/base.rb:397:in deliver!’
/usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionmailer-1.2.5/lib/action_mailer/base.rb:291:in
method_missing' /app/controllers/no_details.rb:57:in private_no_details_here’
/usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-1.12.5/lib/action_controller/base.rb:941:in
perform_action_without_filters' /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-1.12.5/lib/action_controller/filters.rb:368:in perform_action_without_benchmark’
/usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-1.12.5/lib/action_controller/benchmarking.rb:69:in
perform_action_without_rescue' /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/benchmark.rb:293:in measure’
/usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-1.12.5/lib/action_controller/benchmarking.rb:69:in
perform_action_without_rescue' /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-1.12.5/lib/action_controller/rescue.rb:82:in perform_action’
/usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-1.12.5/lib/action_controller/base.rb:408:in
process_without_filters' /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-1.12.5/lib/action_controller/filters.rb:377:in process_without_session_management_support’
/usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-1.12.5/lib/action_controller/session_management.rb:117:in
process' /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rails-1.1.6/lib/dispatcher.rb:38:in dispatch’
/usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/mongrel-0.3.13.4/lib/mongrel/rails.rb:84:in
process' /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/sync.rb:229:in synchronize’
/usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/mongrel-0.3.13.4/lib/mongrel/rails.rb:83:in
process' /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/mongrel-0.3.13.4/lib/mongrel.rb:580:in process_client’
/usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/mongrel-0.3.13.4/lib/mongrel.rb:579:in
process_client' /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/mongrel-0.3.13.4/lib/mongrel.rb:686:in run’
/usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/mongrel-0.3.13.4/lib/mongrel.rb:686:in
run' /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/mongrel-0.3.13.4/lib/mongrel.rb:673:in run’
/usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/mongrel-0.3.13.4/lib/mongrel/configurator.rb:267:in
run' /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/mongrel-0.3.13.4/lib/mongrel/configurator.rb:266:in run’
/usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/mongrel-0.3.13.4/bin/mongrel_rails:127:in
run' /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/mongrel-0.3.13.4/lib/mongrel/command.rb:211:in run’
/usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/mongrel-0.3.13.4/bin/mongrel_rails:231
/usr/local/bin/mongrel_rails:18