SMTP Set Up Help Needed

[Dayanden]

Correct me if i am wrong as I am very new to using SMTP. It is my understanding that Filemaker Pro 10 can use SMTP to send email directly. I am currently trying to get the SMPT settings in FileMaker Pro 10 Advanced to send messages through my Yahoo account.

I have Yahoo Mail Plus and have it is working with a few other programs on both a mac system and a PC windows system. The file I am working on is running on a MAC OS X 10.5.6.

I have the following fields in the SMTP set up screen....

- User Information -

Name: “MyName”

E-Mail Address: "[email protected]"

Reply-To Address: "[email protected]"

Sever Information -

Outgoing SMTP Sever: "plus.smtp.mail.yahoo.com" and “plus.pop.mail.yahoo.com”

Port: I have tried “25”, “465”, “587”, and “995”

Authentication: I have tried “Plain Password” and “Cram-MD5” my only 2 options

User Name: I have tried “MyAccount” and “[email protected]”

Password: I have entered my account password several times in case of a mistake.

Am I missing something? Help would be appreciated.....

It is my understanding that POP is for incoming to the computer and SMPT is for outgoing. I need the out going from my computer to Yahoo.com. I found this information (http://help.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo/mail/classic/mailplus/pop/pop-14.html) and adjusted the setting from this page but it does not seem to be working.

I also contacted Yahoo Support. Because I have “Mac Mail” working fine they were unable to help me further. They recomended that I provide the following information:

- Incoming server: plus.pop.mail.yahoo.com

- Outgoing server: plus.smtp.mail.yahoo.com

- Do not check "Log On Using Secure Password Authentication (SPA)".

- Check the box next to "My Server Requires Authentication."

- If you're using SMTP/outgoing port number to 465 and Pop/incoming port number to 955, both SSL checked.

- However for SMTP/outgoing port number 25 or 587 and Pop/incoming port number to 110, both SSL should be unchecked.

Help Please... What am I missing?

[Ted S]

Dayanden,

For grins I tried to send an email using my Yahoo account and I didn't have any luck either. I also tried using a Filemaker plugin called SMTPit and still no joy.

I poked around a bit on the WWW and my initial impression is that the folks at Yahoo only allow SMTP relaying with their "Plus" accounts which I assume are not the free accounts but rather the pay accounts. Now I admit that my theory could be completely wrong but the error messages I was receiving was "connection refused" which makes me think that it's not a setup problem but rather an authentication or security problem. Since I tried all flavors of authentication using both native FM and SMTPit and still the connection was refused, it makes me think that Yahoo has decided not to allow this kind of thing.

Maybe it's time to consider ditching the Yahoo account and go with some other provider. I think gmail allows relaying.

[Dayanden]

Thanks for the reply Ted S,

I have a "Plus” account....

Does anyone have an account that supports the SMPT with another email provider?

Edited April 1, 2009 by Guest

[Ted S]

It works with Google's gmail.

[Dayanden]

Thanks that worked,

I tried some more things with yahoo but was unsuccessful. Gmail not problem. If anyone else is having problems get a free gmail account.