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    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??



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Does your ISP block SMTP traffic? If you have cable modem this might be the case.
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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.



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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?
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Ive always had this problem. I would love to know the reason/fix for it also.
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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



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