Sending Email

Next up for my little scripting project is to send some email from our IT's mail relay.

There are a several nice Ruby gems that can make sending mail easy to do. Two are Pony and Mail. Pony is super simple, so I went with that for this script. Mail has a lot of features for importing body text, attachments and other great stuff. I will probably use it in a web application.

I would post some demo code, but it's basically right there in the GitHub Read Me.

I did run into some trouble. I got an error connecting to my IT department's relay.

/Users/garthcolasurdo/.rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.2-p318/lib/ruby/1.9.1/openssl/ssl-internal.rb:121:in `post_connection_check': hostname was not match with the server certificate (OpenSSL::SSL::SSLError)

Stack Overflow asked and answered. By adding:

:openssl_verify_mode => 'none'

to my

:via_options => {...}

I'm receiving email from my department's relay.