Emailing Attachments using smtp search

[mvoogt]

I am trying to send PDF attachments out of Filemaker using the send mail script step and using an smtp server to send the mail.

On a PC everything works fine. However, if I run that script on a mac (on the same network) I error out and the email does not send.

Any ideas? I greatly appreciate your help.

[Vaughan]

What is the error?

[bcooney]

What is "smtp search"?

[mvoogt]

The error is 1502 Connection refused by smtp server

Thank you for the help

[bcooney]

http://fmforums.com/forum/topic/67596-trouble-setting-up-mail-script-via-gmail-smtp/

[mvoogt]

Thank you. I ran the telnet smtp.gmail.com 465 test and it does connect. I should reiterate that sending emails via smtp works fine. It is only when I attach a file (no matter how small) that the email then errors.

[bcooney]

Are you scripting this? Perhaps it's a problem with how you are specifying the attachment path? Can you post the script? (Print to PDF and post here).

[mvoogt]

There isn't anything to the scrip. Basically it is just a few global fields to fill in the To:, Subject:, and Body: fields. The odd thing about it that I found out today was I tried the scrip on my mac at home and sending attachments did work... I come back to work today, and I cannot send attachments. This sort of leads me to believe it might be something outside of FMP. Perhaps a port or something I need to open at the shop?

[bcooney]

Still not understanding how you attach the PDF.

btw, gmail has a rep for being a bit flakey with FM's SMTP, as you've seen if you google it.

[mvoogt]

Thanks bcooney for the help. I believe that I have figured out the issue. It is my isp. There is something about sending mail from non-traditional mail apps that is a problem.

http://echeng.com/journal/2008/04/24/fixing-smtp-errors-from-yahooattsbcglobal-dsl/

So I guess I'm just going to have to work around it. Such an odd problem because everything works fine from all other locations.

Thanks again.

[bcooney]

or this?

http://fmforums.com/forum/topic/64229-smtp-settings/