[Gambas-user] Sending mails "solved"

[Rolf-Werner Eilert]

Yes, not from a server (MTA), but from an e-mail client like 
Thunderbird, an MUA. So I tried to use yahoo and the others as MTA.

Am 13.08.2013 13:09, schrieb Randall Morgan:
> A little food for thought....
>
> I am not sure about Yahoo or Google over seas but here in the US Google for
> sure, and I believe Yahoo both will not accept mail from a home server. I
> used to run my own mail servers and still do but with the limitation that I
> cannot send mail to Google without having a paid Google account for each
> domain. Google and many free mail suppliers did this to combat spam. I have
> not tried in a year or so to send from any of my domains that do not have a
> paid google account attached. So if they reversed this, I am unaware.
>
>
> On Mon, Aug 12, 2013 at 11:25 PM, Rolf-Werner Eilert <
> eilert-sprachen at ...221...> wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> Am 12.08.2013 18:35, schrieb Benoît Minisini:
>>> Le 12/08/2013 18:28, Rolf-Werner Eilert a écrit :
>>>> Hi folks,
>>>>
>>>> just FYI, for you were so nice to try to get me up with the Gambas SMTP
>>>> client:
>>>>
>>>> Finally, I picked up a discussion Benoit had had with someone else some
>>>> time ago that it's tricky to really implement authorisation here. Then I
>>>> remembered another discussion in some forum about a similar thing. So I
>>>> searched again and found a script named "sendEmail" written in Perl
>>>> which is easily doing the job.
>>>>
>>>> It hasn't been updated since 2009, but it's running out of the box, so I
>>>> simply use a Shell command to let it send the mails the way I wanted.
>>>>
>>>> For Benoit this could be a template to complete his SMTP in Gambas. It's
>>>> well commented, you can find it at
>>>> http://caspian.dotconf.net/menu/Software/SendEmail/
>>>>
>>>> Regards
>>>>
>>>> Rolf
>>>>
>>>
>>> SmtpClient supports SSL and TLS authorisation. What was not working?
>>>
>>
>> Well... it simply didn't send the mails, or more specific: the mails
>> never arrived anywhere, and I couldn't make out any error messages
>> anywhere. The only message I got was the ending "-> quit". During my
>> holidays, it might have been caused by a bad internet connection, but it
>> wouldn't run here either.
>>
>> Maybe you remember, you told me to look in the "standard errors", but I
>> didn't find anything at /var/log...
>>
>> Then this weekend I found a discussion from last year or so you had had
>> with someone on the SMTP topic, and it turned out you could not find a
>> way to complete programming. In the documentation it says "not
>> everything is supported yet". So I looked for another way of
>> implementing it.
>>
>> Here is my test project which was intended to be included into the
>> bigger main project once it had been running. My personal data have been
>> changed:
>>
>> Public Sub Main()
>> Dim t$ As String
>> Dim email As New SmtpClient
>>
>>     t$ = File.Load(Application.Path &/ "test.pdf")
>>
>>     With email
>>       .Add("This is the mail text")
>>       .Add(t$, mime.Binary, "test.pdf")
>>       .To.Add("eilert-sprachen at ...221...")
>>       .From = "myname at ...20..."
>>       .Subject = "Ein Test"
>>       .Encrypt = Net.SSL
>>       .Port = 587
>>       .Host = "smtp.web.de"
>>       .User = "username"
>>       .Password = "password"
>>       .Debug = True
>>     End With
>>
>>     Try email.Send
>>
>>     If Error Then
>>       Print Error.Text
>>       Print Error.Where
>>     Endif
>>
>> End
>>
>>
>> I tried this with my yahoo account and t-online account (= German
>> Telecom), sending mails forth and back, but to no avail.
>>
>> When I tried sendEmail giving it the same data, the mail was sent at once.
>>
>> Rolf
>>
>>
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