Errors while sending e-mail

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[code] MailSocket.Address = “smtp01.xxxxxx.se” // your SMTP email server
MailSocket.Username = “noreply@xxxxxx.se”
MailSocket.Password = “password2mail”
MailSocket.Port = 25 // Check your server for the property port # to use

// Create the actual email message
Dim mail As New EmailMessage
mail.FromAddress = “jakob@syscare.se”
mail.Subject = “Test Email from Xojo”
mail.BodyPlainText = “Hello, World!”
mail.Headers.AppendHeader(“X-Mailer”, “Xojo SMTP Example”) // Sample header
mail.AddRecipient(“angelica@scrollbar.se”)

// Add the message to the SMTPSocket and send it
MailSocket.Messages.Append(mail) ----------->> error
MailSocket.SendMail ----------->> error[/code]

Error show is:
Type “POP3Socket” has no member named “Messages”
MailSocket.Messages.Append(mail)
Type “POP3Socket” has no member named “SendMail”
MailSocket.SendMail

Code is from the docs and I’ve looked in the Exampple Folder for sending e-mail, but simply, I don’t get it!
These members are not in other projekct and how do I add these!?

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what superclass has MailSocket?

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You have subclassed MailSocket from POP3Socket. Set its super to SMTPSocket.

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Thank you!
Yes, you’re right!

No error messages, but also, no letter was sent. What could be the issue…!?

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Add some event handlers to the socket. See http://documentation.xojo.com/index.php/SMTPSocket for the full list of events.

For example, add an Error event handler to your socket with the following code:

#if debugBuild then system.debugLog(currentMethodName + ", lastErrorCode = " + me.lastErrorCode.toText())

Now Xojo will print to the Messages log (third icon at the bottom of the IDE). Compare the error code to: http://documentation.xojo.com/index.php/SocketCore.LastErrorCode

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Thank you!
Interesting! No eror shows!
I tried also with the MessageSent event, to print a message… but no difference!

No.,… I do these things all wrong!

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Try using telnet to connect to your smtp host on port 25. Do you get a response? Most smtp hosts these days use Secure Sockets and port 465.

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Jakob sent me his code earlier on and it works fine here as it is, on port 25. I sent myself several emails through his mail server.

Some ISPs block port 25 so maybe that’s what’s happening at Jakob’s end but there’s nothing else wrong with his code.

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Yes, that was really nice of Garvin to take the time to look at the code!
I really didn’t expect all to take so much time.
I didn’t really felt comfortable sharing such details in public…

(But there are no secrets as such!)

I now look in Thunderbird, and settings are IMAP and on port 110.

Maybe my Swedish ISP, Telia, prevent me from using port 25? I will do some more investigation on these things as it is still the interesting idea. To use a dedicated Xojo-app to send e-mails.

But now, there is midsummer and midsummer in Sweden is magic!! :slight_smile:
Once in a lifetime, try spend a midsummer in Sweden!

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I took a quick look at the Telia support page. I gather that the SMTP port is 465 and requires SSL. Here is what I found.

I used the Outlook on Windows page - just because I know the screens by heart. It helps pretend I can read Swedish.