KUL KING <[email protected]> wrote: >So I was right that we have to use SMTP to send email. Whether it is from >localhost or gmail. Am I right?
SMTP = Simple Mail Transfer Protocol. That's the language you use to talk to another computer to send mail. Usually, you talk to a server whose job is to take mail from you and send it on to its destination. If it can't contact the destination machine the first time it tries, it will wait a while and try again. It won't give up until a few iterations of this. You can bypass that and have your program directly contact the destination machine. In that case, you have to parse the address to get the domain name, look up the MX record in the DNS for that domain (not the normal A record), then establish contact with the remote machine, etc. Using an SMTP relay server is much simpler. -- Tim Slattery [email protected] -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
