Thanks for the replay.
The case I ran into was a user with a firewall. The strange thing
was if they e-mailed to anyone on the same network (like themselves)
the e-mail went thru, but outside the network and it got blocked.
So, to them their tests worked but actually e-mailing didn't. Is
there any SMTP command that would not trigger an email but
would trigger an error in this case. I couldn't think of any.
Thanks,
Joseph Gordon
"Remy Lebeau (TeamB)" <no.spam@no.spam.com> wrote in message
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> "Joseph Gordon" <pdsphx@parishdatainc.com> wrote in message
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>> I have an application which has the user setup their SMTP Server,
>> Port, username and password. I would like to add a button to test
>> the connect. Is there a way to do that without generating an actual
>> e-mail.
>
> You can certainly test whether the server can be connected to, and ensure
> it is an SMTP port by issuing various SMTP commands that will not trigger
> an email. But the only way to test whether the server will actually
> accept your emails (relaying, etc) is to send a test email message.
>
>> I would like it to be automatic. I don't want to say click this button
>> and go into OE and check to see if an e-mail was delivered.
>
> It doesn't matter what you use to trigger it. A button click, a timer, an
> event, use whatever you need.
>
>> I thought that maybe I could generate an e-mail with
>> and invalid destination and see what kind of error I get
>> back if all the user information is correct
>
> No, because most of the time the destination can't be verified at the time
> the email is sent. It has to go through the email system until it reaches
> a point where the target is finally verified, and which time an error
> email is sent back to the sender's email address separately, long after
> your SMTP send has finished its work. The only time you will get an error
> at the SMTP stage is if the server you connect to knows right away that
> the target is bogus.
>
>
> Gambit
