>Hi all,
>I am having trouble emailing. I am a remote user.
>I connect to a remote Terminal Server via RDP. We are using SEE32.DLL v3.5 from MarshallSoft.
>I run a VFP report to email output - The email code always connects to the IP and will send the email/attachment to
>a recipient in the remote LAN, but if I try to send the email to xxx@yahoo.com it goes nowhere.
>The Log file says error failure "Relay" error to ...yahoo - Is this only because I am a Remote user? See the FAQ below.
>And a local user there COULD in fact send an email to external people? I'm having them test this but wanted to ask you guys.
>
>code snippet
>#define SEE_SMTP_PORT 15
>#define SEE_POP3_PORT 16
>The Admin there says the SMTP port is 587, do I just change 15 to 587? And what about the POP3 port?
>
>I have been researching and found things like..
>http://www.systemwebmail.com/faq/4.3.11.aspx
>I have told the Network Admin about these links but he thinks it is the code.

It has been like this for the last ten years at least. No sane SMTP server will pass your email until they know who you are. So you're either at your ISP's server, or your client's, or the local server in the network into which you log in, or some other server where you must pass the username and password (your client dll should have a way to pass those). If not, SMTP may just think you're a spammer and or other shady creature and your email goes nowhere.

I guess the spammers around the world fight this by running their own SMTP servers, or by creating hundreds of thousands of legitimate accounts on other servers.