blat hangs... won't send mail.

[ragnarok89]

Hey all,

This is probably really easy, but I can't get it. I recently downloaded
Blat 2.61 onto my WinXP SP2 PC. I put Blat.exe, Blat.dll, and Blat.lib
is my Windows\system32 folder.

I then opened a command prompt and typed the following:

blat -to st...@mydomain.com -s "test email" -server my.smtp.server -f
a...@mydomain.com -attach test.txt

test.txt is a 2k text file in the current folder. When I press enter, I
see:

Blat v2.6.1 w/GSS encryption (build : Nov 18 2006 11:59:59)

and nothing happens...

then I tried
blat -to st...@mydomain.com -s "test email" -server 123.123.123.123 -f
a...@mydomain.com -attach test.txt

where 123.123.123.123 is the ip address of my smtp server..... same
result.

Then I tried blat -install my.smtp.server a...@mydomain.com and tried
again. no luck.

Then I tried blat -install 123.123.123.123 a...@mydomain.com and tried
again. no luck

... It can't be this complicated... what am I missing? Thank,

Al

[Al]

All right... I got it working - almost. My PC required a reboot for
Blat not to hang.

Now, however, when I use the command

blat test.txt -server my.smtp.server -to st...@mydomain.com -f
a...@mydomain.com -s "test email"

it connects, it tries to send, but error out with "SMTP server didn't
like the name st...@mydomain.com. Did you set the 'To:' field
correctly?"

If I send an email manually, with no attachment, I have no problem
sending it to steve.

Any ideas? Thanks.

Al

[Bernard Cheah [MVP]]

Check the blat syntax, typically I think the smtp doens't relay such msgs if
it is not authenticated.

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Regards,
Bernard Cheah
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[Al]

Bernard Cheah [MVP] wrote:
> Check the blat syntax, typically I think the smtp doens't relay such msgs if
> it is not authenticated.

Unfortunately, I couldn't try it... blat is back to hanging when I run
it, and rebooting doesn't help anymore. Is there another free emailer
that supports authentication and attachments?

Al

[Al]

I'm an idiot. Problem sovled.

a body MUST be specified for an email, either with the -body switch, or
by entering it manually.

What I thought was blat hanging on me, was actually it waiting for me
to type the body of the email (since I did not use the -body switch).

Al

[Bernard Cheah [MVP]]

Zzz. glad you found it.

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Regards,
Bernard Cheah
http://www.iis.net/
http://www.iis-resources.com/
http://msmvps.com/blogs/bernard/

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