Activity for Phil Parker
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Phil Parker posted a comment on discussion Help
I have been able to use Wireshark to capture a Blat and a PowerShell Script. First the PowerShell- shown below is the PS script. It runs fine with no errors. The capture is only about 4 seconds but it seems like the capture is showing all the proper communications. Both computers say hello and the server says it is ready. It is using port 587 and it seems to be sending data. However I still don't receive an email. $EmailTo = "phillipiparker@hotmail.com" $EmailFrom = "phillipiparker@hotmail.com" $Subject...
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I talked to my ISP "Cox Communications" and they assure me that they play no part in this type of transaction. All they are doing is connecting me to the WWW. They don't manipulate or block anything that does not involve Cox directly. That being the case, I believe Microsoft would be the only player since it is a hotmail account and the SMTP server must be a Microsoft server. I know that Outlook has a help line so that might be a place to start. I had not considered a windows update could be involved...
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I guess the thing that bothers me is that I have been using the above configurations for at least 2 years with no problems. Also I run 6 powershell scripts which don't use blat or stunnel and they all stopped sending emails at the same time as the Blat scripts. There has to be something external going on but I have no clue where to start looking.
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I will start out by saying I am too embarrassed so say how long I have been working on this issue with zero results. In any given month Blat executes 6-8 times telling me if various backups or sync operations were successful. Everything worked fine until a few months ago when all the outgoing emails stopped. Interestingly I also run powershell scripts as a backup and they stopped outgoing mail a the same time. Shown below is a typical configuration I have successfully used for years. Blat has been...
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