Email not being sent

mudasir · Thu Jun 24, 2010 5:05 pm

Hi,

I am trying to send my systems backup via email tool, but it is unable to send email. I am not getting errors in logs.

:global smtp (:put ([:resolve smtp.gmail.com].":25"))
:global file ([/system identity get name] . [:pick [/system clock get date ] 7 11] . [:pick [/system clock get date ] 0 3] . [:pick [/system clock get date ] 4 6] . ".backup")
/system backup save name=$file
/tool e-mail set server=$smtp
/tool e-mail set username=mudasirmirza@gmail.com
/tool e-mail set password=<password>
/tool e-mail set from=mudasirmirza@gmail.com
/tool e-mail send to=mudasirmirza@gmail.com subject=Backups file=$file

Backup file is being created but not being sent. IP is of smtp.gmail.com. Can anyone help me out in solving this issue.
I can not figure out what is wrong with this.

maximan · Thu Jun 24, 2010 7:22 pm

I guess you must to enable TLS for use gmail

M.

SurferTim · Thu Jun 24, 2010 7:23 pm

Try this:
/tool e-mail
send to=mudasirmirza@gmail.com subject=test body="test"

Does it show up in your mailbox?

ADD: If not:
/tool e-mail print
and set up all applicable entries there.

BTW, resolve doesn't work in some versions of the OS.

mudasir · Thu Jun 24, 2010 7:54 pm

So can you tell me any other way to do so. I contacted my ISP and they gave me another SMTP server but still i am unable to send emails.

SurferTim · Thu Jun 24, 2010 8:28 pm

As far as I know, there is only two ways of resolving this. The email must be sent through an email server that "trusts" your ip address, or send it to the email server that handles the "to" email account

I would enter the email server ip they issued you in "/tool e-mail", and try it again. Usually, what that means is "we now trust your ip to send email".

mudasir · Fri Jun 25, 2010 3:55 pm

Hi,

Now i am using the code below, still no progress. The ip is provided by my ISP.

:global file ([/system identity get name] . [:pick [/system clock get date ] 7 11] . [:pick [/system clock get date ] 0 3] . [:pick [/system clock get date ] 4 6] . ".backup")
/system backup save name=$file
/tool e-mail set server=203.99.163.178:25
/tool e-mail send to=cool_mudasir@hotmail.com subject=Backups file=$file

Now i am getting
"Error sending E-mail: invalid TO address"

SurferTim · Fri Jun 25, 2010 4:07 pm

I have my own email server, so that USUALLY means the email server set in "/tool e-mail" won't forward (relay) email for that ip address. Sometimes I forget to enter the new ip address of a router in my email server, and it will refuse email with that message. Good Email Server!!

See if you can connect with telnet from the router
/system
telnet 203.99.163.178 25

You should get a helo message from the email server.

janisk · Tue Jun 29, 2010 2:01 pm

gmail does not work with port #25 they are using #465 (SMPT secure port) if i am not mistaken.

bafh · Tue Jun 29, 2010 2:14 pm

You are not.
It depends where you want to send those e-mails. Mine and many more servers do not accept connections from such countries as Pakistan, Brazil, Nigeria, China etc. Why? Because they are full of russian spambots! And those 3rd world ISPs do not know how to stop spam with simple firewalls.
Sadly bad nowadays every #$%&#%^*& has a PC but only few know how to use it

Tue Jun 29, 2010 2:17 pm

resolve smtp.googlemail.com and use port 587

/tool e-mail send body=lala subject=aa to=me@me.com from=router@lala.com server=209.85.227.16:587 password=xxx user=me@gmail.com tls=yes

SurferTim · Tue Jun 29, 2010 3:22 pm

I was going by what he used for an email server ip. Resolves to
fe-smtp03.ptcl.net
This email server probably wouldn't relay email for his ip until they set it up for him.

I follow bath's procedure. My email server blocks several countries that can't control spam.

bafh · Tue Jun 29, 2010 3:24 pm

not mine, mrz said it.

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