Do you specify user name as well as password when sending email through the server requiring authentication? Also I would check that you have the latest version of wwIpStuff.DLL and wwIpStuff.vcx.
I use wwIpStuff with user name and password and it works for authentication.
HTH.
>I am use West Wind client tools (wwipsuff) to send an email from a VFP 8 application.
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>It works GREAT as long as my email sever does not require authication.
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>I set the .opassword, but it seems to make no difference. The password does not seem to work with SMTP.
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>I want to have my email server to require authinication (to stop spammers from using it), but when I do, the wwipstuff will not send email.
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>How can I work around this????
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>Thanks
>Joel
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