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icon5.gif   Cannot get email to work at all, configuation problem?, posted by Checker Anderson on Sun Aug 13 10:30:40 2006 
    icon2.gif   Re: Cannot get email to work at all, configuation problem?, posted by Stefan Ritt on Sun Aug 13 11:15:49 2006 
       icon2.gif   Re: Cannot get email to work at all, configuation problem?, posted by Checker Anderson on Sun Aug 13 15:49:06 2006 
          icon7.gif   Re: Cannot get email to work at all, configuation problem?, posted by Checker Anderson on Sun Aug 13 17:56:24 2006 
             icon2.gif   Re: Cannot get email to work at all, configuation problem?, posted by Stefan Ritt on Tue Aug 15 13:25:00 2006 
Message ID: 1892     Entry time: Sun Aug 13 11:15:49 2006     In reply to: 1891     Reply to this: 1893
Icon: Reply  Author: Stefan Ritt  Author Email: stefan.ritt@psi.ch 
Category: Question  OS: Windows  ELOG Version: 2.6.2 
Subject: Re: Cannot get email to work at all, configuation problem? 

Checker Anderson wrote:
I an new to elog and the only thing I cannot seem to configure correctly is my SMTP information. Here is a sample of my config file:

SMTP host = checkeranderson.com
SMTP username = Checker@realchecker
SMTP Password = eWFod2Vo

I host my own mail server which uses authentication and my password was set using -t on the command line. With SMTP host = I have tried smtp.checkeranderson.com (which is how my mail program puts it) and mail.checkeranderson.com which is how my DNS server has it. The user name and password are correct. When I edit or reply to any topic I get the message "Error sending Email via "checkeranderson.com"" I have struggled with this for hours and I know I must be missing something that would be obvious to anyone else. Can anyone help me?


Start the ELOG server manually in a DOS box with the "-v" flag, like

> cd \Program Files\ELOG
> elogd.exe -v

(you first might have to stop the elog service via "net stop elogd"). Now you see all communication between the browser and elog and between elog and the SMTP server. If you now try to send an email, you will see the detailed error information returned by your SMTP server.
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