The 26/03/01 at 18:17, Adam C. Engst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Adam,
is your 'king.tidbits.com' an smtp server? An smtp server is a 'sending'
server for email.
> > > I've poked at Control-clicking and seeing the menus, and I think I
> >> found the workspace and typed the following in (fixing SMTP and
> >> replacing with my values) and it still didn't seem to do anything. I
> >> did get a number of rather verbose errors that I unfortunately don't
> >> have time to pass on right now (gotta finish editing TidBITS for
> >> today).
> >
> >Hmm. If you get an error with a title of 'Error: Could not find host
> >address', then the machine is having trouble resolving the name for your
> >mail server. Try substituting the IP number for alertServer and see if
> >that helps. You may have to play with the settings in MacOS to make the
> >name resolve work properly. Weird though.
>
> (Read down to the bottom before replying. :-))
>
> Here we go. I get a pink dialog titled: MessageNotUnderstood:
> deliverMailFrom:to:text:usingServe
>
> It contains the following text.
>
> SMTPSocket class(Object)>>doesNotUnderstand:
> UndefinedObject>>DoIt
> Compiler>>evaluate:in:to:notifying:ifFail:
> PluggableTextController(ParagraphEditor)>>evaluateSelection
> PluggableTextController(ParagraphEditor)>>doIt
> [] in PluggableTextController(ParagraphEditor)>>doIt:
> PluggableTextController(Controller)>>terminateAndInitializeAround:
> PluggableTextController(ParagraphEditor)>>doIt:
> PluggableTextController(ParagraphEditor)>>dispatchOnCharacter:with:
> PluggableTextController(ParagraphEditor)>>readKeyboard
>
> Here's the text of the code Mark sent:
>
> SMTPSocket
> deliverMailFrom: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
> to: #(#'[EMAIL PROTECTED]' )
> text: 'From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> To: "not listed"
> Subject: this is a test
>
> Hello from Squeak!
> '
> usingServer: 'king.tidbits.com'
>
>
> I seem to have to select all (Command-A) to get that full error
> message when I hit Command-D to Do It. Otherwise I get errors in
> purple text right inline with the code snippet.
>
> Oh wait, if I put the cursor at the end of the snippet, Command-D
> doesn't give an error.
>
> But it also doesn't do anything useful - there's no hint in my mail
> server log that a connection is being attempted.
>
> cheers... -Adam
>
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