mvoogt Posted August 3, 2011 Share Posted August 3, 2011 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vaughan Posted August 3, 2011 Share Posted August 3, 2011 What is the error? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bcooney Posted August 4, 2011 Share Posted August 4, 2011 What is "smtp search"? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mvoogt Posted August 4, 2011 Author Share Posted August 4, 2011 The error is 1502 Connection refused by smtp server Thank you for the help Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bcooney Posted August 4, 2011 Share Posted August 4, 2011 http://fmforums.com/forum/topic/67596-trouble-setting-up-mail-script-via-gmail-smtp/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mvoogt Posted August 4, 2011 Author Share Posted August 4, 2011 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bcooney Posted August 5, 2011 Share Posted August 5, 2011 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). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mvoogt Posted August 5, 2011 Author Share Posted August 5, 2011 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? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bcooney Posted August 5, 2011 Share Posted August 5, 2011 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mvoogt Posted August 8, 2011 Author Share Posted August 8, 2011 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bcooney Posted August 8, 2011 Share Posted August 8, 2011 or this? http://fmforums.com/forum/topic/64229-smtp-settings/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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