Greetings,
This is my first time posting but this problem I am having is really
annoying.
Here is a section of my code:
fname = cgi[‘fname’]
lname = cgi[‘lname’]
pw = cgi[‘password’]
em = cgi[‘email’]
buf = “
”
myMessage = <<END_OF_MESSAGE
From: Highpoint A. [email protected]
To: #{fname} #{lname} <#{em}>
Subject: HPU Alumni Verification
Thank you for registering with Highpoint A… Please click the
following link in order to activate your account.
Your password is: #{pw}
END_OF_MESSAGE
Net::SMTP.start('linus.xxxxxx.edu') do |smtp|
smtp.send_message myMessage,
'[email protected]', em
end
end
I’ve x’d out some of the information. But the problem I am having I
think is that it will not allow me to use “em” as an email address to
send. I can physically change em to ‘[email protected]’ and it
will work perfectly fine. I’m taking this email address out of a
POST-REQUEST form so I need the flexibility to store it as a variable
and send whatever that variable the email is. Any suggestions would be
awesome, and if you need more information please let me know.
Brantley
Anyone have any idea of a quick solution?
I’ve tried using:
Net::SMTP.start(‘linus.xxxxxx.edu’) do |smtp|
smtp.send_message myMessage,
‘[email protected]’, ‘#{em}’
end
and lots other options. I just need to know how I can store the email
address so that I can send the string or whatever. Thanks.
Brantley
It might be that I’m missing something but
‘#{em}’
just looks wrong. Try
“#{em}”
so it gets evaled.
but of course
“#{em}”
is equiv to
em
g phil
ok i had another look at this example, which doesn’t look bad at
all. for i’m not able to find an error i’ve to ask: are you sure that
cgi[‘email’] actually holds the emailaddress desired? Does the
emailaddress appear in the generated content of the message?
g phil
Phil,
Thanks for replying. I attempted that method as well and it does not
work either, as you said it is equiv to em. I’ve been constantly
browsing the net to find a solution, but nothing is coming up. Any other
ideas that pop up let me know. Thanks in advance.
Brantley
This simple problem has caused me more grief than I think its worth
honestly 
Brantley
Yes it does hold the email, I comment out the attempt on sending the
email, and just print out the em like this:
buf+=“em is: #{em}
”
which produces:
[email protected]
on the screen. So…I think that does answer your question
Brantley
Bill,
Thank you for your response. I put myMessage into the buffer and it
printed out the entire message as follows:
From: Highpoint A. To: brantley shields Subject: HPU Alumni
Verification Thank you for registering with us. Please click the
following link to activate your account.
http://xxxx.higxxxxnt.edu/~xxxxs/alumni/verify.rbx Your password is:
xxxx
Now as you can see, the #{em} did not print out the the To: statement,
but I’m not sure that it should in this instance. So I made another line
that says this:
buf += “Email is: #{em}
” results:
[email protected]
So it seems as if em is getting the email address, but I’m still
completely lost as to why I cannot use this string to send the
emailaddress. I’ve changed the email to [email protected] to make sure
the underscore was not causing any problems but same problem occurs.
Thanks for your time!
Brantley
From: “Brantley Shields” [email protected]
on the screen. So…I think that does answer your question
What if you print the whole myMessage to the buffer?
For ex:
buf << “
#{CGI.escapeHTML(myMessage)}”
…so that we can see exactly what is being substituted for ‘em’ in the
email?
Regards,
Bill
On Apr 23, 2008, at 11:18 PM, Brantley Shields wrote:
From: Highpoint A. To: brantley shields Subject: HPU Alumni
Verification Thank you for registering with us. Please click the
following link to activate your account.
http://xxxx.higxxxxnt.edu/~xxxxs/alumni/verify.rbx Your password is:
xxxx
this can’t be correct. your code has ‘<’ and ‘>’ around the addr but
those are not there - did you use CGI.escapeHTML??
another thought - do not use to_s to check out your email addr - use
“em: #{ CGI.escapeHTML em.inspect }
”
i think you’ve got something like a stray newline or html char horking
things up.
a @ http://codeforpeople.com/
buf+="em: #{ CGI.escapeHTML em.inspect }
"
returns:
em: “[email protected]”
I’m not sure where your going with this, I’m sure you can tell I’m new
to Ruby. Thanks for having a look, let me know what you think
Brantley
Brantley Shields wrote:
buf+=“em: #{ CGI.escapeHTML em.inspect }
”
returns:
em: “[email protected]”
I’m not sure where your going with this, I’m sure you can tell I’m new
to Ruby. Thanks for having a look, let me know what you think
Brantley
buf+=“myMessage: #{ CGI.escapeHTML myMessage.inspect }
”
returns:
myMessage: “From: Highpoint A. [email protected]\nTo:
brantley shields [email protected]\nSubject: HPU Alumni
Verification\n\nThank you for registering with us. Please click the
following link to activate your
account.\nhttp://linus.highpoint.edu/~bshields/alumni/verify.rbx\nYour
password is: cagenu\n”
Sorry for double post, I think this is useful
Brantley
On Apr 23, 2008, at 8:50 PM, Brantley Shields wrote:
Net::SMTP.start(‘linus.xxxxxx.edu’) do |smtp|
smtp.send_message myMessage,
‘[email protected]’, ‘#{em}’
end
you need
Net::SMTP.start(‘linus.xxxxxx.edu’) do |smtp|
smtp.send_message myMessage, ‘[email protected]’, em
end
is all i think.
a @ http://codeforpeople.com/
On Apr 23, 2008, at 11:37 PM, Brantley Shields wrote:
password is: cagenu\n"
Sorry for double post, I think this is useful
so there you go - the address is right there. what’s the issue now?
a @ http://codeforpeople.com/
I thought the same,
I knew em was holding the email address just fine, but you can’t stick
em on the end and it just send the email, I can’t put anything other
than ‘[email protected]’ otherwise I get an error…Not sure
how to get around this is my point…
Brantley
It is:
Net::SMTP.start(‘mail.my.com’) do |smtp|
smtp.send_message myMessage, ‘[email protected]’, send_to
end
My question is. Are you sure that em = cgi[‘email’] is a String object?
Try to use em.to_s.
by
TheR
On Apr 23, 2008, at 11:56 PM, Brantley Shields wrote:
I thought the same,
I knew em was holding the email address just fine, but you can’t stick
em on the end and it just send the email, I can’t put anything other
than ‘[email protected]’ otherwise I get an error…Not
sure
how to get around this is my point…
Brantley
just realized - you have the arguments reversed
it’s
msg, to, from
not
msg, from, to
which is what you have i think
a @ http://codeforpeople.com/
On Behalf Of Brantley Shields
I knew em was holding the email address just fine, but you
can’t stick
em on the end and it just send the email, I can’t put anything other
error…Not sure
how to get around this is my point…
you seem to be doing web thingy, so
1 pls replace em with another variable email or address will do. we try
to avoid template clobbering…
2 when posting problems pls show logs fr client and fr server
3 put debugging options on your code, eg using net/smtp, i usually do,
smtp.set_debug_output $stderr # verbose output mail session
kind regards -botp
No, i think he has them the right way around. I can’t see anything wrong
with what Brantley is doing though. I’ve included some code that I use
that
does pretty much the same thing, and I know it works. The only real
difference, is I haven’t used <<HEREDOC syntax. But it does the same
thing.
Hopefully this will help.
The email is going from the student, to the trainer.
def submit_results(sid, cid, aid, results)
student = ::Student[sid]
result = student.submit_results(cid, aid, results)
trainer = student.get_trainer(cid)
course = ::Course[cid]
assessment = ::Assessment[aid]
submissionEmail = “From: #{student.first_name} #{student.last_name}
<#{student.email}>\n”
submissionEmail += “To: #{trainer.first_name} #{trainer.last_name}
<#{trainer.email}>\n”
submissionEmail += "Subject: Assessment Submission: ‘#{course.name}’
‘#{assessment.name}’\n\n"
submissionEmail += “#{student.first_name} has submitted results for
‘#{
assessment.name}’ in ‘#{course.name}’.\n”
submissionEmail += “Please log in to mark #{student.first_name}'s
answers.\n\n”
Net::SMTP.start(‘localhost’) {|smtp|
smtp.send_message(submissionEmail,
student.email, trainer.email)}
result
end
On Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 3:58 PM, ara.t.howard [email protected]
wrote:
–
“Every child has many wishes. Some include a wallet, two chicks and a
cigar,
but that’s another story.”
Greetings,
I’ve found some information that may be useful to those helping me on
this small project. The following code works just fine:
from_address = ‘[email protected]’
to_address = ‘[email protected]’
Net::SMTP.start(‘linus.highpoint.edu’) do |smtp|
smtp.send_message(myMessage,from_address,to_address)
end
So, what is the difference between " and ’ to ruby? I checked the error
logs on my server (got ahold of the administrator) and the logs show a
tainted to_address. I know the email itself is not tainted and that it
will send an email address to the one being put into to_address. I’ve
tried multiple simple email addresses such as “[email protected]” which
would not be tainted. So I think its confusing the string or whatever
to_address is being referred to as, its interpretting it as something
else. how can I convert to_address to ‘somelikethis’ ?
Brantley