Email problems. . . grrrr

[yafreax]

I am using the CDML mail tags to mail an email on creation of record. The error i am getting is "Unexpected Reply Code From Email Host." Everything is absolutely correct in the -mail tags. Does anyone have any suggestions of what it might be and / or what steps i can take to eliminate the problem. I've tried everything i know and i send many many other emails out the same exact way.

I'm Confused. . .

jeremy

[Anatoli]

One possible cause is some kind of Antispam protection from Main Mail Server.

I never had any problems between FM -mail functions and Mail Server authorized to accept FM WC mail.

When IT guys start protecting their Mail Servers we had problems like this. After a while they accepted all communication from IP of FM Web WC and all problems disappeared.

[ September 13, 2001: Message edited by: Anatoli ]

[Vaughan]

It's a bit hard unless you post the code being sent to the mail server.

In my experience, my mail server chokes when the -mailto (or cc or bcc) tags has anything other than the bare e-mail address. That is...

-mailto="persons name" [email protected]

...won't work, but plain and simple...

[email protected]

...goes through OK every time.

Unexpected response might also mean that one of the recipients are invalid. Chech the Web Companion activity log, it sometimes has more detail about the errors.

[Tyfud]

if you have any spaces in the -mailsub or in the FMP-Field it coudl also generate this. Replace spaces in the -mailsub with %20, and if you are using field values for subjects or body then have the field code look like this:

[FMP-Field:FieldName,URL]

this will put HEX values for your hi ASCII characters, making it URL friendly =)