sending mail service

[kaalidor]

Hi jerry,

have you resolved sending mail capabilitie from runbasicnet ? I hope so. if there is no issue to this problem i will not continue to use your hosting service. Peharps i'm alone to ask for this but the project i want to put on runbasicnet is based on sending email to Liberty BASIC france user.

I have a dream that carl will probably help you to fix this ^^

regards,

pascal

[Jerry Muelver]

I'm working on it, Pascal. I have an application on runbasicnet that I want to give an email function, so I'm on your side on this one!

[StefanPendl]

Mar 3, 2009 13:29:55 GMT -5 kaalidor said:

I hope so. if there is no issue to this problem i will not continue to use your hosting service.

It is not a problem of RunBASICnet, which prevents sending mails, it is the SMTP server used, that will block mail transfer.

Some free SMTP servers need SSL, which requires a different port.
Since you can not specify the port using the SMTPSENDER command you are out of luck.

SMTPSENDER is capable of using SMTP servers with authentication and using port 25 to communicate, but I wonder what user name is used

[StefanPendl]

I just did a simple test and succeeded by using a SMTP server that does not require authentication.

The culprit is that the SMTPSENDER command has no way to specify the user name to authenticate against the SMTP server, since it is not always the senders mail address.

Until the SMTPsender command has a USERNAME() methode, you will have to use SendEmail to connect to a SMTP server needing authentication.

Jerry, seems you need to include this for your customers

[Jerry Muelver]

I've got the sendEmail app mentioned in another post, and will see if I can get it working. I would love to provide SMTP emailing access for my customers, and for me!

[votan]

You probably got the cmd line tool from one of my earlier posts here runbasic.proboards82.com/index.cgi?board=code&action=display&thread=791 !? This should actually work just fine. But there are many other free cmd line email solutions available.. all with a different set of features. Unfortunately the best (climail) does not seem to be supported/available anymore.... this tool would even allow us to use imap or even build our own email server with RB.

[Jerry Muelver]

Yeah, that's the one I was talking about. Sure enough, RVA solved the problem. I now have SMTP working from runbasicnet.com! I want to do some more testing, on configuration and accounts, etc., before offering it as a feature. I have to figure out if I can have a generic SMTP access for all accounts, or if each account needs a separate EXE and PL file, or if everyone needs a separate account on Google gmail, and stuff like that there.

[kaalidor]

Jerry,

thank's for your interest in resolving my mail problem. If you need beta test, i'm ready !
i've got a gmail account if necessary.

regards,

pascal

[Jerry Muelver]

Pascal, I loaded the sendemail EXE and PL into your account. Here's the "settings" section of the project code:

'--- program settings:
email$ = "[e-mail]" '--- receiver address, where you are sending the email
server$ = "smtp.gmail.com:587" '--- SMTP server you are using for sending email
mailuser$ = "'--- SMTP user (often this is also a full email like "[e-mail]"
mailpwd$ = "" '--- SMTP auth password, your gmail password
sendmaildir$ = "sendEmail.exe" '--- path to SendEmail (relative to DefaultDir$)

Use this in Votan's code from runbasic.proboards82.com/index.cgi?board=code&action=display&thread=791

You have to code-in your gmail account name and password for the SMTP user and SMTP authorization, and the address to which you want to send the email. Create a new project, paste the entire program (Votan's code with the above modifications) into the editor, save and run the project. Give it a try. If you have any problems, I can help you.

[kaalidor]

hi jerry,
thank's a lot for this job ( thank's to votan's too ;-) ). But it doesn't work for me.
But it's not your code !
To verify, i've tryed to configure outlook 2003, thunderbird to send and receive mails from gmail.
i can receive them by imap or pop protocol ( so my gmail account is correctly configured) but i cannot send any email with outlook 2003, thunderbird or your code.

i've tryed differents port as mentionned on gmail help.

if you want to see my code no soucy ! i''ve created the "sendgmail" project on my account.

regards,

pascal

[Jerry Muelver]

The code is not for sending from any of those email clients. It is for sending directly to gmail's SMTP port, then using gmail to do the heavy work.

Do not use the "sendemail_project" that you have. Use Votan's code, with my modifications in a new project. You have to use the code that calls sendemail.exe, which I have loaded into your account, with the parameters filled in as I have indicated in the message above.

Wait a second.....

Okay. I changed your sendemail project. Run RB, open the project, put in the correct entries for email$, mailuser$, and mailpwd$ (I just put in some dummy-text), leave server$ alone, save it, and run the program. Let me know if it works.

[kaalidor]

hi Jerry,

as mentionned into my precedent post, i have created a "sendgmail project" with all the code you preconize.

please control again ^^ but it doesn't work.

regards,

pascal

[Jerry Muelver]

Okay Pascal, thanks for checking it out. I can't get it to work for me, either. But it did a week ago! I'm thinking it must be something changed on the Gmail end. I'll see what I can find out.

[Jerry Muelver]

I really, really hate it when something works for a while, then stops working!

I can't get SMTP through Gmail working any more. I'll try a couple different external SMPT programs, and keep you posted on my progress.

[Jerry Muelver]

Okay, we got it! I have a fix! The sendemail.exe addresss needs a leading slash.

Not this:
sendmaildir$ = "sendEmail.exe" '--- path to SendEmail (relative to DefaultDir$)

But do this:
sendmaildir$ = "/sendEmail.exe" '--- path to SendEmail (relative to DefaultDir$)

Thank you, Pascal, for forcing me to RVA this!