Zugg Software :: View topic - Send e-mail from Zmud without an e-mail client

Enchanter Joined: 05 Mar 2003 Posts: 593 Location: Canada

With this script you can send an e-mail without using an e-mail client.
The SendMessage alias can take up to four parameters
1) The E-mail Address you're sending the message to
2) The Subject of the message
3) The Text to be sent
4) a list of files to be attached.

Only the E-mail address param is necessary, however if each member of the list of files to be attached doesn't point to a valid file, an error will be raised and the message will not be sent.

Configuration:
The following variables need to be configured correctly in order for the alias to work properly.
1)SmtpServer this should contain the IP Address or the FQDN of your smtp server.
2)SmtpServerPort the port that your smtp server listens on.
3)DefaultFrom should either have your e-mail address or
the name that you want seen in the from field. in single quotes followed by 1 or more spaces followed by your e-mail address.
4)Authenticate if Authenticate evaluates to true the CDO object will attempt to authenticate using the SendUserName and SendPassword.
5)SendUserName if authenticating the account name required to logon to the smtp server.
6)SendPassword the password required to logon to the smtp server.

Requirements:
CDO Library Requires at least one of these
Windows 2000/XP,
Exchange Server 5.5 SP1 or better,
Outlook 98 or better
Outlook Express (I'm actually not sure if OE installs CDO).

ADO
If you're using Zmud then you already have ADO installed.

Newbie Joined: 05 Sep 2004 Posts: 6

After setting the vars, doing sendmessage test@yahoo.ca test test

I get the message:

Error parsing command:
Insufficient permissions prevents writing to the field

#Var ConfObj.Fields(%concat(@cdoprefix,"smtpauthenticate")).Value 1;#Var ConfObj.Fields(%concat(@cdoprefix,"sendusername")).Value @SendUsername;#Var ConfObj.Fields(%concat(@cdoprefix,"sendpassword")).Value @SendPassword

I would appriate anyhelp you could send,

Adept Joined: 20 Jul 2004 Posts: 268

Is Outlook Express your DEFAULT email program?
I am prolly wrong, but willing to bet that it needs it set as default to work.

Newbie Joined: 05 Sep 2004 Posts: 6

well after trying to change Outlook to my default email prog it still does not work, But I will let you know if I do figure out the problem.

Posted: Thu Sep 21, 2006 8:00 pm

K, it's been a year since the last posting of this, but I finally got around to even thinking about trying this, and I can say that I can't get it to work either.

Posted: Fri Sep 22, 2006 9:51 am

The error message you are getting is telling you what is wrong. It is telling you it is unable to connect to the mail server you specified. You should use command line telnet to attempt a connect to the mail server and see what goes wrong, if you can connect ok you should get a 220 response to tell you that the server is ready.

When I tried from home I got exactly the same message as you, I couldn't find any mail server I could connect to and get a 220 response. Here at work I used our work server as the email server and connected without a problem. The only issue the script had while trying to use it through my work server was the DefaultFrom, my server didn't like having the friendly name 'Me' me@you.com, it kept returning a 501 5.5.4 Invalid Address when I changed DefaultFrom to contain only me@you.com it worked fine and I received the email.

Good luck.

Posted: Fri Sep 22, 2006 10:26 am

I was at work when I was trying this. I shoulda mentioned that.
I'm home now and tried the change of the DefaultFrom and using the gmail account was still unable to get it to work.
I'll have to test it when i get to work because I can't remember my job info :)
But I know i never got that 501 error.

But i'd rather get this figured out for gmail. since I might send in game emails to people, I'd rather it be from that.

btw, did you only do test test? or was there an actual msg?
and if so, how did you seperate the subject from the body?

also, how do i "connect thru telnet" to test? it's gmail not a a unix server or something.

Edit:
Tried telnet smtp.gmail.com:465 and got a can't connect thru port 23 or something.
Like I said, I think this might be in part because of gmail wanting SSL authorization.
Leaving for work now, will test with hotmail when I get there since I don't think they need SSL

Posted: Fri Sep 22, 2006 4:13 pm

Tried it with my jobs email info and I get the same error.
Not sure what I'm doing diff and not getting a result...

Posted: Fri Sep 22, 2006 4:19 pm

Yep Hotmail should be a good bet for getting a connection to. The main thing to remember is whatever the server is set to you are unlikely to be allowed to relay which means you really ought to have a valid email address on that server which is what you'll set your DefaultFrom to as you have done with Gmail. As you say the port 465 is for secure email and so when you connect using "telnet smtp.gmail.com 465" you can't do or see anything because you're not using a secure layer and you should be. When Dharkael posted this he had SendUsername as one word and certainly no sign of anticipating a problem with @ but notice the anticipated problem with @ for DefaultFrom so I suggest changing

Posted: Fri Sep 22, 2006 4:23 pm

Posted: Fri Sep 22, 2006 5:27 pm

Wish I could say it worked, but it didn't :(
I never said that port 465 was for secure email. That's the port that gmail uses, AND they want the use SSL checked. So I don't know if that's a different setting or what.
I start with:

Posted: Fri Sep 22, 2006 5:49 pm

I walked thru some of this step by step:

Copy & Paste to clear:
#var MsgObj {}
#var ConfObj {}

---
Copy & Paste:
#var MsgObj %comcreate( "CDO.Message")
#var ConfObj @MsgObj.Configuration

Results:
#VAR MsgObj {<OLE object: CDO.Message>}
#VAR ConfObj {<OLE object: CDO.Message.Configuration>}

I'll assume that's right.

---
Copy & Paste:
#Var ConfObj.Fields(%concat(@cdoprefix,"sendusing")).Value 2

Result:
#VAR ConfObj {<OLE object: CDO.Message.Configuration>}

---

Now, I know nothing about how this works, but shouldn't there have been a change there?
BTW, taking the whole expand on command line yadda yadda stuff, I put it in a test alias:

#ALIAS test {#var MsgObj %comcreate( "CDO.Message");#var ConfObj @MsgObj.Configuration;#Var ConfObj.Fields(%concat(@cdoprefix,"sendusing")).Value 2}

and got the same result of no change.

I've also tried this with my job's account info, and my yahoo account (smtp.mail.yahoo.com port 25) with no success.

So, what the heck did YOU do that worked :(

Posted: Fri Sep 22, 2006 5:55 pm

Posted: Fri Sep 22, 2006 9:24 pm

Posted: Fri Sep 22, 2006 10:11 pm

Ok fixed it for you to use Gmail.

Posted: Fri Sep 22, 2006 11:54 pm

This is the point where I fall on the floor and worship you.
*grovel*
How'd ya come up with the smtpusessl?

Now I'll just see about being able to convert this to a prompt driven thing and I should be all good.

Thanks so very much.

BTW: Funny story. I put the code in, ran it and got the same error.
Cursed and raged that it wasn't working for me but worked for you.
Then I changed the **** to my password Embarassed

Posted: Sat Sep 23, 2006 1:57 am

And in my never ending quest to make codes better:

Posted: Sat Sep 23, 2006 2:43 am

Posted: Sun Sep 24, 2006 1:04 am

Core entries:

#CLASS {CDOEmail4}
#VAR ConfObj {} {}
#VAR MsgObj {} {}
#VAR cdoprefix {http://schemas.microsoft.com/cdo/configuration/}
#VAR SmtpServer {smtp.gmail.com}
#VAR SmtpServerPort {465}
#VAR Authenticate {1}
#VAR SendUsername {You@gmail.com}
#VAR SendPassword {password}
#VAR DefaultFrom {'Name' Username}
#VAR Attachment {} {}
#VAR EmailTo {} {}
#CLASS 0

Novice Joined: 26 Dec 2002 Posts: 33 Location: USA

I had Vitae's gmail-smtp script working great in XP SP2, but now when I try it in Vista64, I get:

Posted: Sat Feb 09, 2008 10:54 pm

#var MsgObj.From {Bremen} doesn't equate to a proper email address try #var MsgObj.From {me~@gmail.com} instead.

Posted: Mon Feb 11, 2008 4:01 pm

Posted: Mon Feb 11, 2008 7:26 pm

I was going by what they had pasted in the code box where everything is hard coded except for the to address which is prompted for.

EDIT: Using the posted code I confirm that if the From is set to Bremen it produces the error message posted under Vista, changing From to a valid email address sends the email as expected.

Posted: Mon Feb 23, 2009 3:59 am

Yay! I'm pulling a Vitae and reviving this old thread again! But it's so useful...

I'm using it for CMUD. Quite compatible. Only problem is, it's returning:

Novice Joined: 26 Dec 2002 Posts: 33 Location: USA

Lucky you, I still had this topic on email-notify, haha.

Some googling indicates that that particular email error message is due to an incorrect SMTP login. Are you using the right (a valid gmail) sendusername and sendpassword in the ConfObj?