MIME Lite , retries / bounce backs, Hotmail Issue 1

[1DMF]

Does anyone know if MIME:Lite can handle retries?

apparently it's a standard part of main security in the fight against spammers.

only I have a member that does not get emails we send via MIME:Lite to their hotmail account , yet other members not using hotmail is working fine.

I added my hotmail account to the list and I didn't get it either, i've noticed all of a sudden a whole load of emails from my server systems to my hotmail account have stopped arriving.

Does hotmail have issues, or is it they are using this re-send message system for anti-spam and MIME:Lite can't deal with it?

Hope this makes sense,

Regards,
1DMF

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[1DMF]

on a side note, how do I specify port number, it seems it wants to default to 25 and there is no setting to change it, yet i've just created a new virtual server and gave it port 33 , if IIS/SMTP can be configured, surely MIME:Lite for sending has to be?

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[KevinADC]

I don't think yuo can change it the port setting. You may need to use Net::SMTP for that. MIME::Lite can not handle retries. As far as hotmail specific questions go, I have no idea.

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[1DMF]

Hello Kevin,

How ya doing, it's OK in the end I deleted the Virtual SMTP Server I was trying to create it would only work if I assigned a new IP to the domain in question and that wasn't possible for our set up.

And unless you use a separate IP you can't share port 25, and as you say, I couldn't specify a separate port in the Module.

Funny how you recommend using Net::SMTP, Net::SMTP persae cannot handles attachments, hence installing MIME:Lite to send our PDF attachments.

however after installing MIME:Lite it screwed all my Net::SMTP code and all HTML emails sent through Net::SMTP arrived with blank body text and an attached HTML file.

I have fixed my problem by simply using our mail provider as SMTP instead of the webserver, so they can handle the retries issue with hotmail and it works fine.

I would like to know though, I've scoured the Net::SMTP documentation and cannot find a method for attaching files as attachments to emails, but one assumes what ever MIME::Lite installs messes with something Net::SMTP uses.

Therefore do you know how to get Net::SMTP to send HTML emails with attachents?

That way I could re-write my mailing sub routine back to using Net::SMTP and not have any more of these retry issues.

Regards,

1DMF




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[KevinADC]

There is a sub class of NET::SMTP that does the attachment stuff:

http://search.cpan.org/author/DROBERTS/Net-SMTP-Multipart-1.5/Multipart.pm

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[chipk]

I second KevinADC's suggestion. I just downloaded net-smtp-multipart and had a working script in a bout 2 minutes.

 

[1DMF]

Do you know if installing this Module will affect MIME:Lite, seings as installing MIME:Lite screwed Net::SMTP

"In complete darkness we are all the same, only our knowledge and wisdom separates us, don't let your eyes deceive you.

 

[KevinADC]

I have no idea, I was surprised to hear MIME::Lite screwed up Net::SMTP, but I guess it must be possible.

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