Ruby to send email attachments

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I searched the news group and found a script that sends email with attachments. I modified it a bit to loop through an array sending to multiple recipients, however, it seems that addresses with a '_' or a '-' in them will sometimes produce an error on sending.

The script is too long to post here. Here is a link to it:
http://filebox.vt.edu/users/rtilley/public/email.rb

Would someone look it over to see what I'm doing wrong? I'm relatively new to Ruby, so I'm sure I've just done something wrong. Perhaps it's how I read the email addresses into an array?

Also, how would I insert a message-id into emails? Our mail server complains when a message comes through without one and inserts one itself. No big deal really, it just raises the spam score a tiny bit (not that I spam)... these are legit emails.

Thanks to anyone who can offer help or advice!
Brad

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Hi,

From: rtilley <rtilley@vt.edu>
Reply-To: ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org
To: ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org (ruby-talk ML)
Subject: ruby to send email attachments
Date: Sun, 2 Apr 2006 23:23:45 +0900

I searched the news group and found a script that sends email with attachments. I modified it a bit to loop through an array sending to multiple recipients, however, it seems that addresses with a '_' or a '-' in them will sometimes produce an error on sending.

insert this line
    smtp.set_debug_output $stderr
after the line
    smtp = Net::SMTP.new(@server)
and examine the debug messages.

The script is too long to post here. Here is a link to it:
http://filebox.vt.edu/users/rtilley/public/email.rb

Would someone look it over to see what I'm doing wrong? I'm relatively new to Ruby, so I'm sure I've just done something wrong. Perhaps it's how I read the email addresses into an array?

Also, how would I insert a message-id into emails? Our mail server complains when a message comes through without one and inserts one itself. No big deal really, it just raises the spam score a tiny bit (not that I spam)... these are legit emails.

insert message-id like this
      wa.write("Message-ID: <000001c656e2$a8217380$0100007f@localhost>\r\n")
after the line
      wa.write("MIME-Version: 1.0\r\n")

Thanks to anyone who can offer help or advice!
Brad

Hope this helps,

Park Heesob

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Hi Brad,

ยทยทยท

On 4/2/06, rtilley <rtilley@vt.edu> wrote:

I searched the news group and found a script that sends email with
attachments.

You might want to check out SimpleMail
(http://simplemail.rubyforge.org/\). That's the library I've been
using to send out scripted emails.

- Dimitri