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HuwR
Forum Admin
United Kingdom
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 Posted - 05 February 2010 : 11:12:05
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| no, that is the problem you have it can't use godady, that is why we are telling you to install iis smtp, please listen to our advice or don't ask for help |
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Running925
Starting Member
USA
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Posted - 07 February 2010 : 14:03:50
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Originally posted by HuwR
no, that is the problem you have it can't use godady, that is why we are telling you to install iis smtp, please listen to our advice or don't ask for help
I was trying to understand your advise! I really am guessing at this point. This is much more complicated than anything i've done, and i'm a computer technician for a living!
I'm i'm gonna try and spend some more time on this tonight. I don't think i have the smtp thing setup properly on my server. I'm not even sure i went to the right place.
On my server, i launched IIS, in the left pane of the window at the bottom there is an smtp option, i've expanded it down and added my site to it. Does this sound right? |
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Running925
Starting Member
USA
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Posted - 07 February 2010 : 14:06:35
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I used "localhost" in my e-mail server field.
This is the error that i've recieved this time:
CDO.Message.1 error '80040213'
The transport failed to connect to the server.
/forum/inc_mail.asp, line 142
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HuwR
Forum Admin
United Kingdom
20600 Posts |
Posted - 07 February 2010 : 14:09:43
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| yes, now in the admin options of the forum set the email server address to be 127.0.0.1, it should then use the local smtp service to send the email. if that doesn't work it may be that your ISP does not allow you to use prt 25 (many block this) if so you can try setting the smtp service to another port. |
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HuwR
Forum Admin
United Kingdom
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Podge
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Ireland
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Running925
Starting Member
USA
28 Posts |
Posted - 08 February 2010 : 16:36:30
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Originally posted by Podge
Are you running a firewall on the computer you have IIS & SMTP running ?
IMHO you would be better off using your ISP's mail server to send email (if they provide you with an email address).
I do not have a firewall running on the computer.
As far as using the ISP's mail server goes. I would prefer to be able to send from an address associated with my domain so that i looked more legit when members are recieving messages in there boxes. So i'd like to work in that direction if possible.
I put the 127.0.0.1 address in to the mail server field and the error now reads:
error '8004020f'
/forum/inc_mail.asp, line 142
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Podge
Support Moderator
Ireland
3776 Posts |
Posted - 08 February 2010 : 18:07:42
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As far as using the ISP's mail server goes. I would prefer to be able to send from an address associated with my domain so that i looked more legit when members are recieving messages in there boxes. So i'd like to work in that direction if possible.
It doesn't matter which account you use to send the email as long as the from address is from your domain i.e. if you use authentication to send from your isp you could still set the from address to your domain. This is how the "Send to a friend" feature works. Any user of your forum could send a link to an interesting topic to one of their friends however the from address the friend receives is not from your domain, its the senders email address.
This is a suggested fix for error '8004020f' - http://classicasp.aspfaq.com/email/why-does-cdo-message-give-me-8004020f-errors.html
Can you post a current version of the CDOSYS section of your inc_mail.asp ?
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Running925
Starting Member
USA
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Posted - 08 February 2010 : 20:07:23
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I think i just made some progress here.
I went and looked through the smtp area in the iis on the server. I changed some settings in the "relay restrictions" area for my domain & all of the sudden when i try to send a message on the forum, i stopped getting an error! It acted like it went through.
So i went to my inbox and did not find the message. So i went scrolled back up on here and re-read the post that "HuwR" made about the smtp directory and holding the messages.
I found my test message in the "queue" folder.
So i guess my next question is, why isn't the message leaving the "queue" folder? What do i need to do from here?
*edit: i just remembered. I don't have DNS set on that server, i never really needed it for anything else coz i never browsed with it. Would the smtp need DNS set to function? |
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Running925
Starting Member
USA
28 Posts |
Posted - 08 February 2010 : 22:00:14
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YAY!!! I finally got this working, using my ISP's smtp address!
Thank you to all of you have helped me through this! :)
Now i can start to work on a few other things that i want to get working, such as youtube embed & possibly some picture size limitations. |
Edited by - Running925 on 08 February 2010 22:03:14 |
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