World: r3wp

Hello!  I'm having trouble with my hosting account to send via e-mail 
a cgi form response.  I can get rebol to post the data to the page, 
I just can't get it to send the data to me via e-mail.   I'm able 
to send e-mails from my laptop but when I use the same set-net settings 
on my host account I get the following error: ** User Error: Server 
error: tcp connection failed
** Near: smtp-port: open [scheme: 'esmtp] 
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Hello!  I'm having trouble with my hosting account to send via e-mail 
a cgi form response.  I can get rebol to post the data to the page, 
I just can't get it to send the data to me via e-mail.   I'm able 
to send e-mails from my laptop but when I use the same set-net settings 
on my host account I get the following error: ** User Error: Server 
error: tcp connection failed
** Near: smtp-port: open [scheme: 'esmtp] 
either only

most smtp servers do ip filtering on the input.  this allows them 
to know who is sending the email to them and will only allow ips 
they serve to connect.


since your hosting account is probably on a remote server, it won't 
be allowed to send data via your home smtp server account.

Sorry for the redundant posts.  Altme was updating and msg board 
wasn't being updated at the time. I thought I was losing the info.

you'd have to setup an smtp server on the hosting account.

that is ... if I understand your setup correctly.

Even though I'm able to send e-mails from my home computer via rebol 
console using my host's SMTP Relay?

when you say hosting account, you mean a server on the net with its 
own dns/ip which is different than the ip being served to you by 
your access provider... yes?

Yes, it's a shared hosting account; my provider is GoDaddy.

its possible GoDaddy has an smtp relay you can connect to, which 
will accept connections from the hosted machine.

your internet provider will not allow anyone else than its own allocated 
ips to make an smtp connect... for sure.

SMTP Relay lets you send email messages through your email account 
using your existing email service. For example, you can continue 
to use Microsoft Outlook to compose, receive, and send email messages, 
but the actual email messages are processed through our SMTP relaying 
services. This lets you bypass ISP restrictions on your outbound 
email messages and allows you to use your professional looking "[sales-:-coolexample-:-com]" 
email address rather than a general “[sales-:-ispname]” address.

Does this mean, I'll need to use perl: sendmail?

godaddy has it's own smtp server

so, von, if you have a godaddy mail account setup, you can connect 
to its smtp server directly. 


is your hosted machine's set-net function setup to connect to something 
like [smtp-:-godaddy] ?

set-net is the rebol networking setup function. it is usually run 
on install and is stored in your user.r

I have the following smtp in my set-net:  smtpout.secureserver.net

It works when I send an e-mail from my home laptop but not on my 
hosting account.

well, doesn't it ask you for a password??

esmtp requires a password

so you need to encode the password somewhere if you're going to use 
a script

and if you're not on your ISP ... it probably won't even let you 
send the email

I've supplied all necessary info in set-net, which includes username 
and password.

well, then you need to a trace/net to see where the issue is

In the past I've always used /usr/sbin/sendmail to send e-mails via 
cgi but I'm lost on how to do it via Rebol.

do you have a shell account?

from godaddy?

I have to create one but the GoDaddy system says that I'll have to 
update my database name due to the conversion.

if sendmail works .. maybe you can use

set-net [ localhost [sales-:-coolexample-:-com] [

try this

rebol []
echo %log.txt
set-net [ [sales-:-coolexample-:-com] smtpout.secureserver.net ]
trace/net on
send [self-:-somewhere-:-com] "test"

make it a cgi script and see what is written to %log.txt

I get this

>> set-net [ [sales-:-coolexample-:-com] smtpout.secureserver.net ]
>> send [someone-:-gmail-:-com] "testing"
Net-log: ["Opening" "tcp" "for" "esmtp"]
connecting to: smtpout.secureserver.net
Net-log: [none "220"]
Net-log: {220 p3plsmtpa01-02.prod.phx3.secureserver.net ESMTP}
Net-log: [["EHLO" system/network/host] "250"]
Net-log: "250-p3plsmtpa01-02.prod.phx3.secureserver.net"
Net-log: "250-AUTH LOGIN PLAIN"
Net-log: "250-8BITMIME"
Net-log: "250 PIPELINING"
Net-log: ["Supported auth methods:" [login plain]]
Net-log: ["MAIL FROM: <[sales-:-coolexample-:-com]>" "250"]
Net-log: "250 Sender accepted."
Net-log: ["RCPT TO: <[someone-:-gmail-:-com]>" "250"]

** User Error: Server error: tcp 553 Sorry, that domain isn't in 
my list of allowed rcpthosts.

log.txt:  Content-Type: text/plain

Net-log: ["Opening" "tcp" "for" "esmtp"]
Net-log: [none "220"]
** User Error: Server error: tcp connection failed
** Near: smtp-port: open [scheme: 'esmtp] 
either only

that looks like an outgoing firewall issue.

yeah ..port 25 is being blocked

you have to use this .... http://help.godaddy.com/article/1073

this is the correct smtp server relay-hosting.secureserver.net

limit of 1000 email per day

Wow, that's it! :-)  I've spent almost 10 hours trying to resolve 
this and I had the wrong smtp relay, duh me!  I really appreciate 
your help!

the best developper community in the world   :-D

My paypal account is ...

(hahaha was gonna say...  "bills in the mail"  ;-)

too slow ...

Hey, I'd be happy to send some $, if it means speeding up my learning 
curve!  I'll PayPal some money over, seriously!

great .. can pay for my new USB LCD monitor :)  [sales-:-compkarori-:-co-:-nz] 
:)

.. help pay .. not pay for the whole lthing!

Done, I've submitted via PayPal :-)  Thanks for your help, I get 
can some rest now :-)  Thanks Maxim for your help also!

Thanks Von .. will certainly encourage others to help you out :)

and who said we coudn't make profit by reboling  ;-)

Graham, you mentioned that I should encode the password.   Is this 
in case someone hacks into my host?  If I use the encloak function, 
couldn't someone also find my readable key in the script and then 
decloak my password using Rebol?

would there be instances where write/lines/append would write a quarter 
or half a line? I'm logging tests of several script instances into 
the same file and write/lines/append sometimes produces only half 
a line in the log.