Web Wiz Support and Community Forums : cdosys help https://forums.webwiz.net/ Copyright (c) 2006-2013 Web Wiz Forums - All Rights Reserved. Tue, 07 Apr 2026 21:52:35 +0000 Sat, 07 Feb 2004 08:53:46 +0000 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Web Wiz Forums 12.08 360 https://forums.webwiz.net/RSS_post_feed.asp?TID=9566 <![CDATA[Web Wiz Support and Community Forums]]> https://forums.webwiz.net/forum_images/web_wiz_forums.png https://forums.webwiz.net/ <![CDATA[cdosys help : Essentially what it means at this...]]> https://forums.webwiz.net/cdosys-help_topic9566_post51407.html#51407 Author: dpyers
Subject: 9566
Posted: 07 February 2004 at 8:53am

Essentially what it means at this point is that mail is leaving your server ok. Which means that it's being blocked downstream. Most likely at your firewall or at your isp. Check the firewall to make sure you're allowing port 25 outbound.

The simple way way around the isp issue is to pretend you're an email client like outlook. To do this, you'd specify your isp's smtp server in your script, and also a login/password for a valid account.

You may be able to do the login/password through the isp's smtp server through localhost, but it's a little more complex and involves relaying which your isp may not support (or support in a flakey way).

On the related issue...  being able to use localhost instead of just your machine name... check under your /windows/ directory structure for a file named hosts (a text file with no .extension). It's exact location varies by OS. On my XP pro, it's in C:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers\etc. Add/verify that there's an entry for...

127.0.0.1 localhost



Edited by dpyers]]> Sat, 07 Feb 2004 08:53:46 +0000 https://forums.webwiz.net/cdosys-help_topic9566_post51407.html#51407 <![CDATA[cdosys help : Ive always had this problem. I...]]> https://forums.webwiz.net/cdosys-help_topic9566_post51373.html#51373 Author: MadDog
Subject: 9566
Posted: 07 February 2004 at 1:10am

Ive always had this problem. I would love to know the reason/fix for it also.]]> Sat, 07 Feb 2004 01:10:47 +0000 https://forums.webwiz.net/cdosys-help_topic9566_post51373.html#51373 <![CDATA[cdosys help : alright, pasted .txt file in directory,...]]> https://forums.webwiz.net/cdosys-help_topic9566_post51369.html#51369 Author: Fadrie
Subject: 9566
Posted: 06 February 2004 at 10:58pm

alright, pasted .txt file in directory, file disappeared, mail never got delivered to me.  interesting....log file shows 0 errors, not sure what to do next, frustrating to say the least!!  any other suggestions?]]> Fri, 06 Feb 2004 22:58:07 +0000 https://forums.webwiz.net/cdosys-help_topic9566_post51369.html#51369 <![CDATA[cdosys help : Go to the mailroot sub directory...]]> https://forums.webwiz.net/cdosys-help_topic9566_post51224.html#51224 Author: dpyers
Subject: 9566
Posted: 06 February 2004 at 2:14am

Go to the mailroot sub directory in your inetpub directory. check out what's in the folders under mailroot. May get some clues. Also check your error logs.

Also check your services and make sure iis and smtp are running. localhost should work, so I'd suspect a congifuration problem.

To test if smtp is running properly...

Copy the following 4 lines into a .txt file:

From: emailaddress@someplace.com

To: emailaddress@someplace.com

Subject: testing

This is the test message body.


Change the email addresses to something you can check.

Copy the text file (not a shortcut) to the smtp pickup directory. On my XP machine, it's C:\Inetpub\mailroot\Pickup

Within a few seconds it should disappear from the directory and be mailed to the addresses.



Edited by dpyers]]> Fri, 06 Feb 2004 02:14:42 +0000 https://forums.webwiz.net/cdosys-help_topic9566_post51224.html#51224 <![CDATA[cdosys help : Does your ISP block SMTP traffic?...]]> https://forums.webwiz.net/cdosys-help_topic9566_post51154.html#51154 Author: Str8Dog
Subject: 9566
Posted: 05 February 2004 at 12:43pm

Does your ISP block SMTP traffic? If you have cable modem this might be the case.]]> Thu, 05 Feb 2004 12:43:59 +0000 https://forums.webwiz.net/cdosys-help_topic9566_post51154.html#51154 <![CDATA[cdosys help : Can&#039;t seem to send email...]]> https://forums.webwiz.net/cdosys-help_topic9566_post51127.html#51127 Author: Fadrie
Subject: 9566
Posted: 05 February 2004 at 11:04am

Can't seem to send email but not getting error either...

I am running my forum on my personal computer.

Using Windows XP, when I put "localhost" in the email setup screen I get errors, when I put my computer name "fast" I get no errors but the email is not sent.

SMTP is installed and running fine, website works great except for email notifications??

Any thoughts on this??



Edited by Fadrie]]> Thu, 05 Feb 2004 11:04:11 +0000 https://forums.webwiz.net/cdosys-help_topic9566_post51127.html#51127