[REBOL] Re: Email woes on IBM/AIX Risc 6000
From: edanaii:cox at: 1-Aug-2002 18:36
G. Scott Jones wrote:
>Hi, Ed,
>
>It is not obvious from what you wrote about. Additionally, the smtp server
>is not accessible from the Internet (or is not currently up) so I can't log
>on with telnet to confirm what I think may be happening. My guess (judging
>from info in your email header) is that the smtp server may be an
>authenticating server (meaning it requires sign-on sequence management
>before it allows email to be sent). If so, not all implementations may be
>currently supported in pure (unhacked) REBOL. Second, if the user name
>sequence has an @ sign, the standard REBOL net url parser will not properly
>parse the user name portion.
>
Nope, it's not obvious from what I wrote. But then, that's my whole
problem, I'm not sure where I should start looking. :)
>If the email server requires "authentication" and your user name has an @,
>let me know and I can dig up the patch. If you don't know if it is
>authenticating, try a telnet session, something like:
>
I don't believe that the server requires authentication. Working with
our SA, we were able to send an email on that box using a unix command
(I forget which, I'm not a unix dude), it worked fine.
>telnet smtprelay.avnet.com:25
>type:
> EHLO your-client-url
>and return and wait to see if amongst the return messages you see:
>S: 250-AUTH=LOGIN
>
I'll try it, but I'm not sure what you mean by "your-client-url"? Do you
mean the url of the box I'm trying to email from? Please clarify...
>If you do not have an @ in the user portion, copy the feedout of the telnet
>session, and it may be easy to show a hack that will work (based on a hack I
>did last year for an Exchange server that required authentication using
>MBS_BASIC encoding).
>
My ultimate goal is to connect to an exchange server and process email
there. So if this is relevant now, it will be later. :)
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