That's interesting. Can't you modify the emailer to optionally check for mail first?
You could also catch errors with TRY, and if there's an error sending, then read mail first and try sending again. At least the program won't halt then. Anton. > > ...Still, once I try the rebol-script with 'emailer, I get > the same error > message... Do you all get that? It's the Kasper program on > http://folk.uio.no/hallvary/rebol/index.r. And by thye way.. > Work ok for me. Perhaps you check your REBOL Email configs, > or reinstall > rebol, else first check it is sending email ok. Start with > minimal console > test. > > I have a new ADSL provider DirectTVDSL. One glitch with using is that > sometimes I cannot send email by clicking send from Outlook > Express [my > regular software] unless I click first hit the main > SEND/RECEIVE button at > the top. Likewise REBOL programs needing to send email > sometimes will hang. > > The solution is I have to make sure that Outlook can handle > the email first. > Then Rebol is happy. This seems to be associated with some 'spam' type > prevention scheme by smpt.directvinternet.com [the DSL mailer domain]. > For example I tried it right now: > > <error> > The message could not be sent because one of the recipients > was rejected by > the server. The rejected e-mail address was > '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'. Subject > 'Re: [REBOL] Re: REB sites which don't respond', Account: > 'pop.panix.com', > Server: 'smtp.directvinternet.com', Protocol: SMTP, Server > Response: '553 To > send mail, first check your mail with a valid POP account; > this prevents > unauthorized SPAM relaying. (#5.7.1)', Port: 25, Secure(SSL): > No, Server > Error: 553, Error Number: 0x800CCC79 > </error> > > But it might be confounded by Microsoft putting there evil > spanner in the > unholy works yet > again. Never had the problem before, and DirectTV engineer > admitted their > email strategy sucked.. > > This is bumming me out because I am concerned about > reliability of REBOL > programs on unknown or unattended machines. > > I wonder if anyone using Internet via Cable Modem has any > experiences like > this. > > - Jason -- To unsubscribe from this list, please send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" in the subject, without the quotes.
