Sending mail in RUBY

Ruby
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Can someone please point me to a simple mail utility for RUBY? I see
that I have both RUBYmail and Tmail in my ruby folder on my hard drive,
but, I canâ??t find any decent documentation on either. Iâ??m on Windows,
not UNIX. Do I just do a “require” for either to use them? RI yields
nothing about either.

Thanks.

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Peter B. wrote:

Can someone please point me to a simple mail utility for RUBY? I see
that I have both RUBYmail and Tmail in my ruby folder on my hard drive,
but, I canâ??t find any decent documentation on either. Iâ??m on Windows,
not UNIX. Do I just do a “require” for either to use them? RI yields
nothing about either.

Thanks.

Documentation for RubyMail: http://www.lickey.com/rubymail/rubymail/doc/
Documentation for TMail: TMail User Manual

Hope that helps.

-Justin

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Justin C. wrote:

Peter B. wrote:

Can someone please point me to a simple mail utility for RUBY? I see
that I have both RUBYmail and Tmail in my ruby folder on my hard drive,
but, I canâ??t find any decent documentation on either. Iâ??m on Windows,
not UNIX. Do I just do a “require” for either to use them? RI yields
nothing about either.

Thanks.

Documentation for RubyMail: http://www.lickey.com/rubymail/rubymail/doc/
Documentation for TMail: TMail User Manual

Hope that helps.

-Justin

Thanks, Justin. Yes, that helps. I’d seen those web sites before, but,
for whatever reason, the links weren’t working. Now I see them, and, I
can read them. . . .

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Peter B. wrote:

Thanks.

Thanks, Justin. Yes, that helps. I’d seen those web sites before, but,
for whatever reason, the links weren’t working. Now I see them, and, I
can read them. . . .

Just be aware that those will only format/parse messages and mailboxes.
If you want to actually send email you will have to use Net::SMTP or
Net::IMAP.

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Daniel S. wrote:

Peter B. wrote:

Thanks.

Thanks, Justin. Yes, that helps. I’d seen those web sites before, but,
for whatever reason, the links weren’t working. Now I see them, and, I
can read them. . . .

Just be aware that those will only format/parse messages and mailboxes.
If you want to actually send email you will have to use Net::SMTP or
Net::IMAP.

Yes, thanks. Iâ??ve seen that. But, Iâ??ve tried tmail and when I run the
script, it complains about 'require tmail." So, even though I see it in
my RUBY subdirectories, I don’t know if itâ??s actually installed or not.
With rubymail, Iâ??ve tried running the 3 install instructions that are on
the doc. page, but, nothing happens. It doesnâ??t know what Iâ??m talking
about. I’ll look into SMTP and IMAP. Thanks again.

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On Jun 14, 2006, at 10:40 AM, Daniel S. wrote:

Just be aware that those will only format/parse messages and
mailboxes. If you want to actually send email you will have to use
Net::SMTP or Net::IMAP.

You can’t send mail with IMAP, only SMTP.

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On 6/15/06, Peter B. [email protected] wrote:

Yes, thanks. I’ve seen that. But, I’ve tried tmail and when I run the
script, it complains about 'require tmail."

What is the exact line that you’re trying to use?
I am not sure if you have things setup right, but the “require”
statement should look like:

require ‘tmail’

(assuming that you have a file called tmail in one of the right
directories).

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I found the gem ‘mailfactory’ to be a simple and terse message
generator that outputs MIME, handles attachments and supports text/
plain and text/html.

To install it just, assuming you have rubygems installed just do:

gem install mailfactory

The rdoc that comes with it has an example on the first page which
shows you how to use it. Open the rdoc file by looking in wherever
rubygems lives on windows.