One other thing! You should not have to authenticate if you are inside of your own ISP for SMTP on port 25! Some ISPs may require authentication but Bellsouth.net does not!
You are already a part of your ISP's network segment and you should only have to authenticate for POP3! There might be a limit on the number of email address that can used on one email at one time (that is the total addresses from the To, CC and BCC). Most ISPs will limit that kind of email because you could flood their servers. I know this because I learned the hard way! I was bulk emailing SMS messages (text messages) and it would not work over 150 email address on one email. I got a reject email saying that I had exceeded the address limit. You need to check with your email provider to see what their limits are. So I rewrote the application to send them one email address at a time. That was not an issue because it ran in the back ground on the PC. If you have a packet stiffer you can capture the packet activity and see what's going on too! That way you can see under the hood what is being communicated. Best Regards, Oma Cox O.C. Services Inc. P.O. Box 5485 Brandon, MS 39047 662.820.7599 601.992.6785 www.ocservicesinc.com -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of OmaYahoo Sent: Sunday, March 29, 2009 11:50 PM To: RBASE-L Mailing List Subject: [RBASE-L] - Re: R:Mail Help -- Please Richard, I use bellsouth.net which is ATT (ATT merged with them little while back). I have been using 2.6 R:mail to send SMS messages via email and email invoices since August 2007. Example of what I have set up SMTP Server Name: mail.bellsouth.net Port: 25 Display progress should be checked When test is run I get a response - <250 isp.att.net>. Also I get the response dialog connection good! Your router should not be an issue because port 25 is a standard port for smtp mail and if your client email is working on your test PC then R:Mail should work too! What router are you using! What AV are you using and is it monitoring and filtering your email? Best Regards, Oma Cox O.C. Services Inc. P.O. Box 5485 Brandon, MS 39047 662.820.7599 601.992.6785 www.ocservicesinc.com -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Doug Hamilton Sent: Sunday, March 29, 2009 11:23 PM To: RBASE-L Mailing List Subject: [RBASE-L] - Re: R:Mail Help -- Please Richard, I think I ran into something like this a year or two ago (so forgive me if it's a little sketchy - precede every sentence with "I think", "Maybe", etc.) We were trying to email about 70 newsletters through SBC using RB 7.6 & R:Mail 2.6 and I ran into the same problem you did. I called SBC and they require Secure Socket Layer (SSL) which isn't supported in R:Mail 2.6. Our workaround was to email the newsletters through our web hosting site. Fortunately, they didn't require SSL but, as an aside, had a limit on the number emails that could be sent - max of 50 in 5 minutes or 200 per hour, so I had to put appropriate timers in the code. More recently I was setting up email for another client on AT&T DSL (not R:Base related) and I believe AT&T required SSL to be set on in Outlook Express email. So tying those two setups together, AT&T may require SSL which, AFAIK, isn't supported in 2.6, it is in 3.0. Best bet is to call AT&T to confirm. Hope that helps, Doug Richard Croy wrote: > Okay, I give up! <G> > > I have tried every possible configuration that I can think of, both > with the > firewall turned on and turned off, to configure R:Mail (Ver. 2.6 for > R:Base 7.6) to work with my STMP > (AT&T) and all that I get is repeated "Connection failed" messages. > > I have been trying the same settings -- same server name, port, > log-in, and > password -- as I use for my e-mail account on AT&T (which works > great), but > these don't seem to work with R:Mail. Nor does anything else I have > tried. > > So I'm stumped (or, okay, maybe stupid). I seem to recall some > exchanges on the > R:Base List from others who had a similar problem, but because I > wasn't into > R:Mail at the time, I did not save them. Duh! > > Now I'm trying to build R:Mail into a meeting registration > application, but > I'm going nowhere fast (or slow). Anything which will help me stop > spinning my wheels will be gratefully appreciated. > > > Richard S. Croy > [email protected] > > ==================================== > This message has been checked with an up-to-date > version of Norton Antivirus before sending, > ==================================== > >
