On 2006-07-17, Diana <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I'm trying to connect to the yahoo smtp server so that i can pass emails but
> I can't seem to connect. I use a treo 650, can anyone look at the following
> code to see what's wrong??
> NetHostInfoBufPtr hostInfoBufP = NULL;
> NetHostInfoPtr hostInfoP = NULL;
> NetIPAddr address = 0;
> NetIPAddr *addressP = NULL;
>
> NetServInfoBufPtr servInfoBufP = NULL;
> NetServInfoPtr servInfoP = NULL;
> UInt16 port = 0;
> UInt16 *portP = NULL;
>
> NetSocketRef sockRef;
> NetSocketAddrINType inetAddrP;
>
> Int16 results;
>
> errno = NetLibOpen(gNetRefNum, &ifErrs);
> if (!errno){
> hostInfoBufP = (NetHostInfoBufPtr) MemPtrNew
> (sizeof(NetHostInfoBufType));
> hostInfoP = NetLibGetHostByName(gNetRefNum, "mail.yahoo.com",
> hostInfoBufP, 120 * SysTicksPerSecond(), &ifErrs);
> if (hostInfoP != 0){
> addressP = (NetIPAddr*) hostInfoP->addrListP[0];
> address = NetNToHL(*addressP);
> }
> servInfoBufP = (NetServInfoBufPtr) MemPtrNew
> (sizeof(NetServInfoBufType));
> servInfoP = NetLibGetServByName (gNetRefNum, "smtp", "tcp",
> servInfoBufP, 60 * SysTicksPerSecond(), &ifErrs);
>
> if (servInfoP!=0){
> port = servInfoP->port;
> }
> sockRef = NetLibSocketOpen(gNetRefNum, netSocketAddrINET,
> netSocketTypeStream, 0, 60 * SysTicksPerSecond(), &ifErrs);
>
> if (sockRef!= 0){
> inetAddrP.family = netSocketAddrINET;
> inetAddrP.port = NetHToNS(port);
> inetAddrP.addr = NetHToNL(address);
> FrmAlert(noAnswer);
> }
>
> results = NetLibSocketConnect(gNetRefNum, sockRef, (NetSocketAddrType *)
> &inetAddrP, sizeof(inetAddrP), 60 * SysTicksPerSecond(), &ifErrs);
>
> if (results == 0)
> FrmAlert(resAlertPhoneLibrary);
> else {
> if (ifErrs == 0)
> FrmAlert(err16);
> else if (ifErrs == netErrTimeout)
> FrmAlert(err1);
> }
>
> For some reason I keep getting netErrTimeout. But even if I changed the
> timeout to be 5 minutes it's still timing out....anyone know what I'm doing
> wrong?
Just note that NetLibOpen can return the error(?) netErrAlreadyOpen. In that
case none of your following code is executed.
Also why don't you hardcode the smtp port number (25) ?
HTH
Ton van OverbeekZ
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