Rick:

I think part of my problem was that i had installed the latest 4.40 copy of WWC (with the wwipstuff) on a PC running VFP8. I then tried to add emailing capabilities to a PC with a VFP6 app. I was copying files from the VFP8 PC to my VFP6 pc to see if it handled authentication (unlike IDSmail, which does not). I had encountered some non-bracketed code in the SENDMAIL method that was expecting VFP7or8. I think i got past that.

I then found i needed MSXML3 installed (is that correct by the way? i need to use 3 and not 4?). Did that. Using someones smtp server, acctname, and pw where authentication is performed, VFP hangs on SENDMAIL. If i use my own smtp server (no auth), i can send email. Am waiting for these "auth" users to try it on their end.

Can i use WWIPSTUFF on VFP6 to send authenticated email?
Does Base64Encode (for VFP6) require MSXML3 ?

>Chris and Larry,
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>>Can u post the sample code u are using to send authenticated email w/ WWIPstuff? What is the version/date of WWIPstuff?
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>>I am having the same problem and am getting nowhere.
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>>thanks.
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>For authentication all you should need to do is fill in the cUsername and cPassword properties.
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>Several people have reported problems with Verizon's SMTP server - specifically the authentication. It appears Verizon is doing something non-standard with their auth, but I can't really check it out since I don't have an account with them.
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>OTOH, Verizon is the only provider that I've heard problems about with SMTP so I suspect it's something in their protocol handling. It is possible that they don't support basic auth or have it disabled so that hte login fails.
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>What is the error message you get? Is it a login error or what?
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>If anybody wants to pass me account info temporarily I'll take a look at it. Send me private email if you want to do this...
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>+++ Rick ---
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>>>Here's the fix that worked for me:
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>>>Turns out, I was using an older version of wwIpstuff.dll (file dated 20-Jan-02) which I had restored from a backup disk after a hard drive problem. Once I upgraded to the newer version (file dated 5-Dec-02), sendmail() worked fine with authentication, and I did not need to mess with making a pop connection first.
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>>>FYI. I was put on the right track by a message I found in the West-Wind message board: "Make sure you are using the appropriate wwIPStuff.dll. If you have upgraded from a prior version, you might not be using the right .DLL. Double-check it. Then triple-check it." - Guy Pardoe
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>>>Thanks Guy!
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>>>- Larry
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>>>[original post]:
>>>I'm using wwIPstuff’s sendmail()from a VFP app. This has worked fine until I changed my email provider from Earthlink to Verizon. Testing with my email client and talking to Verizon I verified that Verizon requires authentication whereas Earthlink does not. So I added the cUsername and cPassword properties (plus, of course, the new cMailServer property) for Verizon, but sendmail() still failed - giving a 'relay' error. I've read the relevant UT threads on this, plus Rick Strahl's Wiki post (http://www.west-wind.com/wiki/kb.wiki?wc~EmailRelayingDenied), but am still having problems.
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>>>(a) If I must make a POP3 connection first, how would I best do this and can this be done using wwIPstuff? Would I be making a pop3 connection to the smtp server?
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>>>(b) Is it possible that wwIPstuff's sendmail() simply won't work with the Verizon mail server?
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>>>Thanks!
>>>- Larry