I cannot believe this! I searched and searched… and I figured it out by fluke. I’m sure someone knew how to work this..
If you are having a problem with sending mail from the routerboard itself ( Using The Dude will use your MAPI settings to send mail so it does not apply to this issue)
I kept getting the error Error talking to server. I eventually decided well, lets see waht the server is talking about. I looked into the event viewer, and found:
This is an SMTP protocol log for virtual server ID1 The client at 10.10.10.3(router board IP) sent ehlo command, and the SMTP server responded with 501 5.5.4 Invalid address". The full command sent was “ehlo MY Routers Name”. This will probably cuase the connection to fail.
At this point I had already set in exchange to allow from 10.10.10.3 but never worked, kept getting this error.
So I tried the dumbest thing I would ever think of, I changed the Identity ( system Identity in winbox ) to my e-mail address, never worked. (assuming I needed a valid address) sadly no go. I then tried any one word NO SPACES, and voilla, it worked, mail sent. I then changed it back to my original name less the spaces!!!
ALl the reading of the scripts of from=“Blah@here.ca” body=“hello” server=“10.10.10.150” Nothing had worked, I had even tried it with my Isp’s mail server, and it didn’t work with them.
In the end, just use a one word identity name. But I’m sure some SMTP guru already knew that! At least they could of posted it here for us less knowledgable people that rely on user forums to learn!
Yup, I spent 20 hours on it! That sux!