Re: My ISP blocks 25. How to test sendmail?

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From: Kristofer Gafvert (kgafvert_at_NEWSilopia.com)
Date: 02/05/05 

Date: Sat, 05 Feb 2005 00:13:58 -0800

Well, you need to send it to a machine on your internal network.

So if you set m.To to someone@192.168.0.2, assuming that 192.168.0.2 is
the IP of a machine running SMTP on your network, then the email should
end up in the Drop folder. 

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Regards,
Kristofer Gafvert
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G Dean Blake wrote:
> I have two xp machines.  This is my code on machine1
>         Dim m As MailMessage = New MailMessage
>         m.From = "myFromAddr@bogus.com"
>         m.To = "myToAddr@bogus.com"
>         m.BodyFormat = MailFormat.Text
>         m.Subject = "typeOfAction"
>         m.Body = "this is the body of my test email
>         SmtpMail.Send(m)
>
> IIS shows a Default SMTP Virtual Server on both machine1 and machine2 
but I
> don't know how to address this mail to machine2.  When I send it now it 
goes
> out to my Earthlink ISP who rejects it by blocking port 25.  How do I 
send
> it to machine2 so I can look at the email as it gets received?
> Thanks
> G
>
> "Kristofer Gafvert" <kgafvert@NEWSilopia.com> wrote in message
> news:xn0dy2qys73304c012@news.microsoft.com...
> > Hi,
> >
> > You don't need a POP3 server. Does your code do the actual sending, or
> > does it use an already existing SMTP server? If it do the sending, you
> > could just install SMTP on the development machine and send it to the 
SMTP
> > server. The emails will be available in the C:\Inetpub\mailroot\Drop
> > folder.
> >
> > If your code uses a local SMTP service, you might need a remote server 
to
> > send to, and again, SMTP available in Windows XP works fine.
> >
> >
> > --
> > Regards,
> > Kristofer Gafvert
> > www.gafvert.info - My Articles and help
> > www.ilopia.com
> >
> >
> > G Dean Blake wrote:
> >
> >> I have to write some sendmail code in .net.  It's easy to write but
> >> Earthlink (my ISP) blocks my smtp generated mail.  How can I test out 
my
> >> email code?
> > >
> >> Is there a way to set up POP3 on my other xp pro machine and send to 
it?
> >> Thanks,
> >> G

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