I'm using Aethera 1.0 for win32 on win98SE and I'm having a problem with the mailer: I can receive e-mails from the account I set in the prog, but I cannot send e-mails, in fact all my tests were negative and I think this might be a bug.
TIA for feedback.
fab
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Just a though but if you are feeling brave you could always telnet to your SMTP server to make sure it is not rejecting the e-mail because it thinks you are trying to use it as a relay.
If you telnet to your mail server on port 25 you could try the following (replace [CR] with a real Enter).
helo somemachineorother[CR]
mail from: username@hostname[CR]
rcpt to: username@hostname[CR]
QUIT[BR]
If you managed to not get an error on the mail from: or the rcpt to: (something like "I won't relay") it might be an aethera bug. If you do get an error message you need to check the mail server configuration (or ask someone who has access to it).
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Some more notes, it seems that Aethera isn't working with user name which contains ' ' (space) or '@' (may be more).
The same situation is available for passwords.
This things will be fixed in the next release.
Also the errors from SMTP will appear in the status bar (it seems that they are overwritten now, that's why they don't appear).
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I'm using Aethera 1.0 for win32 on win98SE and I'm having a problem with the mailer: I can receive e-mails from the account I set in the prog, but I cannot send e-mails, in fact all my tests were negative and I think this might be a bug.
TIA for feedback.
fab
Just a though but if you are feeling brave you could always telnet to your SMTP server to make sure it is not rejecting the e-mail because it thinks you are trying to use it as a relay.
If you telnet to your mail server on port 25 you could try the following (replace [CR] with a real Enter).
helo somemachineorother[CR]
mail from: username@hostname[CR]
rcpt to: username@hostname[CR]
QUIT[BR]
If you managed to not get an error on the mail from: or the rcpt to: (something like "I won't relay") it might be an aethera bug. If you do get an error message you need to check the mail server configuration (or ask someone who has access to it).
Some more notes, it seems that Aethera isn't working with user name which contains ' ' (space) or '@' (may be more).
The same situation is available for passwords.
This things will be fixed in the next release.
Also the errors from SMTP will appear in the status bar (it seems that they are overwritten now, that's why they don't appear).