I would like to send an email without using an SMTP server. I have tried using CDO.Message to send email. It works fine in IIS5.0 but not with IIS6.0. Is there a way to save emails to a pickup directory that outlook will use to send through it's own processes or some other option than using an SMTP server? Our firewalls blcok port 25 fairly aggresively unless it is coming from outlook directly.
If you want Outlook to send your message, you need to use the Outlook Object Model for that.
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To learn about email and SMTP, I wrote a basic SMTP client using sockets to push an email to my outlook account, following an example from a textbook.
I ran into a hiccup though, when the outlook mail server required me to authenticate before I could send the email. After researching the issue, I learned this is to prevent mass email spam and sender spoofing, which makes sense. I resolved this by authenticating using my outlook email and sending the email to myself.
My follow up questions that I'm having trouble finding an answer to are:
If a different mail server, such as google, needs to push an email to my outlook inbox, how does it authenticate? Does the google mail server have an account with outlook?
Is it not possible to just send mail between any two mail servers? Do the mail server admins need to white list other email servers first?
Found my answer here: How to send a mail directly to SMTP server without authentication?
Turns out, I was not connecting to an external SMTP server for outlook, but rather a server for users to perform actions with their outlook account specifically.
Apart from creating a few websites and using it for my own domain to receive my mails, I haven't done much with plesk. When setting up the server, a friend helped me and suggested to me back then (3 or 4 years ago) to use the forward functionality provided by plesk to forward all mail to my gmail address. In gmail i just added my mail-address in the "send mail as" list so I can also send my mails from there.
I'm just wondering now if there is any reason why I shouldn't just let gmail directly check my mail-inbox via POP3.
Sorry, I'm really new to all this mail-server stuff, but I would like to get some input from some more experienced users if there are any security concerns with any of those methods or if it doesn't matter at all.
The problem with pop3 is that you download all mails from your mail-server itself. So the mails were retrieve and were downloaded from the server at the time. This can be a problem if you use a mail-client and store all mails there. In this case you're not able to retrieve your mails at the webmail for example, because the mails are stored in the client.
I would recommend to use IMAP so you can check your mails from the plesk-server at your mobile-phone, mail-client or webmail.
We currently experience the problem that a user cannot send a mail to herself.
She get the error that she's not allowed to send e-mails from this address.
(You are not allowed to send on behalf of this user...)
Her e-mail address is AAA#domain.com.
(From AAA#domain.com to AAA#domain.com)
She can:
Send e-mails internally
Send e-mails externally
Receive internal e-mails
Receive external e-mails
We make use of Office 2016 and Exchange 2010 14.03.0399.000
I found out that the local address book was corrupt.
Disabled addressbook, deleted the local file and enabled it again.
This solved the issue
My application will be used in a manner that the user is remote from his computer running the application, receiving data via text messages sent periodically from the PC. Im sending the text message via email, using the number#carrierdomain.com. To simplify determining the user's smtp server, I've been sending the message using the destination phone carrier's smtp, instead of the whatever may or may not be available at the PC. This has worked so far with AT&T and T-Mobile, but not Verizon, as they have discontinued their smtp service.
I'm using mailsend v1.15 http://www.muquit.com/muquit/software/mailsend/mailsend.html
but Im open to alternatives.
I do have a less than ideal workaround, which is to use google or hotmail's smtp, but that requires a login/pass.
If I can send the text through regular email, using outlook, it works. I've looked at outlooks smtp logs, but that doesn't really help.
If its not being sent to a Verizon smtp server, how does it get routed, and is it something that my application can use?
Is there a reliable way to send email without having the senders smtp?
Theoretically, any smtp server can send your e-mail. However, due to the overwhelming amount of spaming on the internet, pretty much every isp has locked down their smtp server and will not allow anonymous relaying of e-mail.
If you do have the outlook client on the box you are sending the e-mail you can look at using one of the Outlook APIs:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/gg608200.aspx
to send the e-mail message. You are using the outlook configuration then and don't have to worry about it your code.
As long as an SMTP server is configured to allow relay from a remote domain then you can use it send email from/to virtually any address. There are downsides, however, to using any SMTP server to send an email from a specific domain - the most notable of which is that the recipient's domain will likely flag the message as spam because the domain of the SMTP server is different from that of the sender's email address.
There are other non-email APIs that can be used to send text messages, if that is something you're willing to consider. Check out:
Tropo (http://www.tropo.com)
Zeep Mobile (http://www.zeepmobile.com)
Best of luck to you.
Impossible. SMTP is the Simple Mail Transfer Protocol, without this is impossible to access to another account with Email format. You can make a php mail where you don't need to have smtp, but your access will be limited, not all ESP / ISP will allow you to delivery those emails, because they need to identify you using your SMTP and MX Lookup (Reverse MX A records) from your server. It exists more ways, but are 100% SPAMMERS and HACKERS methods and I don't recommend to use them.
I am using the built-in email component of CakePHP 1.3, and it seems that all my emails go to the hotmail junk folder.
Does any of you know what to change to make Hotmail thinking this is NOT a spam? If some of you experienced the same issue, some feedback on what they've done or tried to fix it would be much appreciated.
Cheers,
Nicolas.
Cake simply uses the PHP built-in mail() facility. Without any further setup your mail is not going to be delivered by a proper MX server but rather the sendmail binary connects directly to the SMTP port on the remote host and attempts to deliver.
You see how easy it is to set up a spam sending facility like this. Mails delivered by a random machine instead of a proper mail server are very likely to be classified as spam.
Ask the web server admin to set up mail sending from the server. Alternatively you could use any trusted SMTP server to send mail (e.g. google).