Getting Net/SMTP to work for me

I’ve managed to get a simple mail message sent to myself, but, it leaves
a lot to be desired. I get an e-mail from my server, to me, but, there’s
no body to the mail, even though I created some message text in a
“message” variable. Also, in the e-mail sent to me, the “to” field in
the e-mail is blank, with my e-mail address under cc: as a blind copy,
(bcc: Peter B./BNA Inc). Can someone help me put in a subject line,
and, get my timestamp to work as my e-mail body? And, I need to put the
name of the file that I’m telling people about in the subject line, too.
That’s in a variable.

(1) message = “Time Sent: ‘Time.now’”
(2) Net::SMTP.start(‘notes1’, 25) do |smtp|
(3) smtp.send_message message,
(4) ‘[email protected]’,
(5) ‘[email protected]
end

Thanks for any help.

Peter B. wrote:

(1) message = “Time Sent: ‘Time.now’”
(2) Net::SMTP.start(‘notes1’, 25) do |smtp|
(3) smtp.send_message message,
(4) ‘[email protected]’,
(5) ‘[email protected]
end

Thanks for any help.

Hi Peter,

Please see the Net/SMTP documentation [1]. It gives you an example of a
message. Things like the ‘to’ and ‘from’ addresses all go in the
message.

Here’s a simpler example (untested):

message = <<EOS
From: Bob [email protected]
To: Someone [email protected]
Subject: Hi There!

Hi Someone,

How’s it going?

Love,
Bob
EOS

require ‘net/smtp’
Net::SMTP.start(‘your.smtp.server’, 25) do |smtp|
smtp.send_message(message, ‘[email protected]’, ‘[email protected]’)
end

Hope that helps.

-Justin

[1]http://ruby-doc.org/stdlib/libdoc/net/smtp/rdoc/classes/Net/SMTP.html

Justin C. wrote:

Hi Peter,
Subject: Hi There!
Net::SMTP.start(‘your.smtp.server’, 25) do |smtp|
[1]http://ruby-doc.org/stdlib/libdoc/net/smtp/rdoc/classes/Net/SMTP.html

If you install RubyMail or TMail via gems, you will need to require
‘rubygems’ as well as ‘rmail’ or ‘tmail’. Both of those are good tools,
but there is also MailFactory, which is easy to use:

require ‘mailfactory’

    mail = MailFactory.new()
    mail.to = "[email protected]"
    mail.from = "Internet D. <[email protected]>"
    mail.subject = "My, what big ears you have!"
    mail.text = "Have you ever considered plastic surgery?"

    Net::SMTP.start('localhost',25, 'otherserver.myorg.org',

[email protected]’, “$Uper$ecret”, :login) { |smtp|
smtp.send_message(mail.to_s, “[email protected]”,
[email protected]”)
}