[drats_users] more on d-rats email

[Arnold Harding]

I haven't followed the entire thread, but I do know that Comcast will 
only allow mail to be sent from pop accounts when connected to/through 
Comcast.  There are some ways around it with the pop settings, but I 
don't remember them at the moment.  This is to prevent spammers... 
Comcast usually wants you to send using the email client in comcast . 
net when elsewhere.
Could this be part of the problem?

Arnold
KQ6DI

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Rolan O. Clark" <rolan.clark at comcast.net>
To: "Discussion of D-RATS" <drats_users at intrepid.danplanet.com>
Sent: Thursday, February 09, 2012 3:37 PM
Subject: Re: [drats_users] more on d-rats email


> Dan,
>
> Your are correct.
>
> file>preferences>outgoing email    ,  when smtp.comcast.net  is 
> removed
> then it doesn't send.
>
> I tried this again, with smtp.comcast.net back in and saved,  It 
> won't send
> with file>preferences>Email Access set to  outgoing, it has to be 
> set to
> incoming. Do you understand why that is  happening?
>
> To me,  if the code compiles and runs without error, obviously it 
> does, then
> one has to assume it is doing what the program tells it to do.
>
> Maybe the frame of  reference of incoming and outgoing is  what I 
> am not
> understanding.  Not a problem,  I can set to  both but  curious.
>
> Thanks much for your time,
>
> I know  there are several of these instances/scenarios I don't 
> understand
> because I don’t understand the flow path of  emails and how the code 
> is
> written.
>
> Take care,
>
> Rolan
>
>
>
> -----Original Message----- 
> From: Dan Smith
> Sent: Thursday, February 09, 2012 1:31 AM
> To: Discussion of D-RATS
> Subject: Re: [drats_users] more on d-rats email
>
>> and off it went into never never land or where ever but Phil got 
>> it.
>
> From your screenshots, it looks like you have an SMTP server 
> properly
> configured, albeit disabled. I'd have to go look at the code, but I
> believe the "enabled" flag only controls whether messages received 
> from
> other stations can be gatewayed through to that server or not. Since
> you're local and addressed the mail directly, I think it would still
> attempt to send it. If you remove the server name from that box and 
> then
> try again, it shouldn't work, if you're doing what you say you're 
> doing.
>
> -- 
> Dan Smith
> www.danplanet.com
> KK7DS
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