On Jun 22, 5:47 ¨Βν¬ ΚυξλοξΌκυξλο®®®ΐηναιμ®γονΎ χςοτεΊ
> On Jun 21, 8:45 ¨Βν¬ ΠθμιΌπθμιπ²®®®ΐηναιμ®γονχςοτεΊ
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> > APNelson.L wrote:
> > > so how would I go about writing a scrip to send an email then?
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> > You might have some small hope of installing a lite POP3 server on yourwn
> > workstation. Then you can test ActionRecord by sending it mail.
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> > I tried that once, and I could not find a POP3 server that was _lite_, like
> > a student's sketch of one. They were all real servers, top-heavy and
> > configuration-hostile.
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> > Then turn on TLS security, to emulate how GMail does it...
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> > --
> > Phlip
> >  ¨ΒττπΊ――ασσεςτ²®ςυβωζοςηε®οςη―ασσεςτίωιξίωαξη®θτνμΘιδε ρυοτεδ τεψτ >
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you have to add this piece of code for gmail smtp to work thro action
mailer
INSTALL THE FOLLOWING AS smtp_tls UNDER C:\ruby\lib\ruby\gems\1.8\gems
\actionmailer-2.0.2\lib
############## START OF CODE ##################################
require "openssl"
require "net/smtp"

Net::SMTP.class_eval do
  private
  def do_start(helodomain, user, secret, authtype)
    raise IOError, 'SMTP session already started' if @started
    check_auth_args user, secret, authtype if user or secret

    sock = timeout(@open_timeout) { TCPSocket.open(@address, @port) }
    @socket = Net::InternetMessageIO.new(sock)
    @socket.read_timeout = 60 #@read_timeout
    @socket.debug_output = STDERR #@debug_output

    check_response(critical { recv_response() })
    do_helo(helodomain)

    raise 'openssl library not installed' unless defined?(OpenSSL)
    starttls
    ssl = OpenSSL::SSL::SSLSocket.new(sock)
    ssl.sync_close = true
    ssl.connect
    @socket = Net::InternetMessageIO.new(ssl)
    @socket.read_timeout = 60 #@read_timeout
    @socket.debug_output = STDERR #@debug_output
    do_helo(helodomain)

    authenticate user, secret, authtype if user
    @started = true
  ensure
    unless @started
      # authentication failed, cancel connection.
        @socket.close if not @started and @socket and not
@socket.closed?
      @socket = nil
    end
  end

  def do_helo(helodomain)
     begin
      if @esmtp
        ehlo helodomain
      else
        helo helodomain
      end
    rescue Net::ProtocolError
      if @esmtp
        @esmtp = false
        @error_occured = false
        retry
      end
      raise
    end
  end

  def starttls
    getok('STARTTLS')
  end

  def quit
    begin
      getok('QUIT')
    rescue EOFError
    end
  end
end

##########END OF CODE #############################################