Sending mail through gmail

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Hi. Could someone give me an example of how to send mail through a gmail
account using the Ruby Net::SMTP class? Park Heesob's gmailer library
doesn't work for me.

Thanks

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It's probably better to figure out why gmailer isn't working. I'm not
sure what you'd have to do for SASL support with gmail/SMTP.

-austin

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On 7/5/06, Ell Quing <turtlethief@hotmail.com> wrote:

Hi. Could someone give me an example of how to send mail through a gmail
account using the Ruby Net::SMTP class? Park Heesob's gmailer library
doesn't work for me.

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I saw this the other day:

http://typo.onxen.info/articles/2006/06/27/activemailer-sending-via-gmail

It's using ActionMailer, but I wonder if the same technique might work
in your case.

Paul.

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On 06/07/06, Ell Quing <turtlethief@hotmail.com> wrote:

Hi. Could someone give me an example of how to send mail through a gmail
account using the Ruby Net::SMTP class? Park Heesob's gmailer library
doesn't work for me.

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Ell Quing wrote:

Hi. Could someone give me an example of how to send mail through a gmail
account using the Ruby Net::SMTP class? Park Heesob's gmailer library
doesn't work for me.

There's a recent blog post by stoyan at Bloggitation on this topic just
here:
http://typo.onxen.info/articles/2006/06/27/activemailer-sending-via-gmail

Cheers,
Dave

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Ell Quing wrote:

Hi. Could someone give me an example of how to send mail through a gmail account using the Ruby Net::SMTP class? Park Heesob's gmailer library doesn't work for me.

Thanks

may be you should check the SMTP port you provided; because gmail uses port 587.

~sind

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Ell Quing wrote:

Hi. Could someone give me an example of how to send mail through a gmail
account using the Ruby Net::SMTP class? Park Heesob's gmailer library
doesn't work for me.

Thanks

I'm just trying to write some normal Ruby code (i.e., not Rails),
though, so should I be trying to use ActionMailer?

If not, and I can just use the Net::SMTP library, I'm not sure what I do
here:
Net::SMTP.start('your.smtp.server', 25, 'mail.from.domain', 'Your
Account', 'Your Password', :login)

Is it just
Net::SMTP.start('smtp.gmail.com', 587, 'gmail.com', 'ellquing',
'mypassword, :login)? (The main problem is I don't know what to put in
the 'mail.from.domain'--I know absolutely nothing about mail servers or
whatnot.)

Also, for those curious, the problem with the gmailer library is that I
used to be able to use it to receive and send mail...but then one day,
I'm not sure why, I got the following error when trying to login to any
of my accounts:

g = GMailer.connect( "ellquing", "mypassword" )

Net::HTTPBadResponse: wrong status line: "<HTML><HEAD><meta
http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text/html;charset=utf-8\">"
        from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/net/http.rb:1556:in `read_status_line'
        from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/net/http.rb:1538:in `read_new'
        from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/net/http.rb:833:in `request'
        from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/net/http.rb:615:in `get'
        from ./gmailer.rb:196:in `connect_no_cookie'
        from ./gmailer.rb:195:in `start'
        from ./gmailer.rb:195:in `connect_no_cookie'
        from ./gmailer.rb:123:in `initialize'
        from ./gmailer.rb:1767:in `new'
        from ./gmailer.rb:1767:in `connect'
        from (irb):2

However, I then proceeded to create a new GMail account, and I was able
to login fine...

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sindica wrote:

Ell Quing wrote:

Hi. Could someone give me an example of how to send mail through a gmail account using the Ruby Net::SMTP class? Park Heesob's gmailer library doesn't work for me.

Thanks

may be you should check the SMTP port you provided; because gmail uses port 587.

~sind

and it uses TLS for authentication

~sind