Sending Email. Gmail or yahoo???

[Frank]

Hello...

 

I have never used ME to send an email in a macro...

 

I am trying to set it up with no luck...

 

I would like to use my gmail account / settings but

can use yahoo...

 

Any advice or suggestions on how to set up?

 

Thanks,

F

[Cory]

It's easy and straightforward. I've only used the mail servers from my Office other accounts accounts, but it's the same for all SMTP. Find your settings at the Google help site and configure the mail server connections in Preferences. 

[Frank]

Thanks for the reply...

 

I tried that set up and tried the different ports (25,465)

 

when i run the macro i get an error that says

 

SCRIPT ERROR

 

Message could not be sent

"already connected"

[Cory]

25 is non encrypted. Gmail will not accept that. 465 is for SSL, the older protocol, and 587 is TLS which I'm guessing is what they want. 

[Cory]

https://support.google.com/a/answer/176600?hl=en

Should be like this. 

[Frank]

Tix BEST showing.

[Cory]

I have no idea what that means. 

 

https://sendpulse.com/

 

I just thought of something else. I had problems with some equipment no working with an SMTP server. I signed up for a free account from these guys and it worked great. Provided you're not sending a huge number of emails, this works well. There are many others like this as well. 

[Frank]

hello that was a mistake above. 

THANKS FOR ALL OF YOUR HELP...

i looked at the company.  how would i apply it to my macro.

right now i have to set up a WINDOW and do a bunch of steps.  opening up the possibilities of mistakes

and glitches so my desire is to eliminate those possibilities...

 

fyi here is what i have now...

[Cory]

The Email Send command is much simpler. It's the top one under the Internet group.

[Frank]

i know,   that is why i am TRYING to set up smtp and have issues...

 

I tried gmail (both a free gmail and a paid workspace) and no luck.

 

the company you suggested, how would that work with the macro?

 

F

[Cory]

The same. You configure MEP with the the SMTP server parameters and use the simple Email Send command. Host, port, credentials. email address and display name. That's it. 

Preferences > Email > SMTP Settings. 

[Frank]

I am using MEP 4.9.1.1

 

I signed up with pulse

did the options>preferences>email>smtp setup

and still no luck.

 

any suggestions?

F

[Cory]

Do you have security software that's blocking MEP? 

What error are you getting?

[Frank]

the only security is windows and i added MAP to exceptions...

 

The macro is a 1 line macro - <EMAIL SEND Prompt_for_Recipients="FALSE" To="[email protected]" Read_Receipt="FALSE" Subject_Mode="\x00" Subject="eee" Body="eee" Attach_Mode="\x00"/>) 

 

port 2525  - Message could not be sent

port 465 - Macro just runs.  nothing happens.  have to terminate MEP in order to move on... (clicking on green running man does nothing)

port 587 - same as 465

 

F

 

[Cory]

I don't know. You should start a trouble ticket with ISS. 

[Frank]

what is ISS? (pulse or MEP)

 

let me clarify what i have,  maybe this all my fault.

smtp settings - those are correct.

the macro i made is one line only...EMAIL SEND

 

I run macro and get the errors / issues I mentioned above

 

F

[Cory]

ISS = Insight Software Solutions is the maker of MEP. 

https://www.macros.com/supportrequest/

 

If you have all the settings correct in MEP you should only need the one line. Since you have tried multiple SMTP servers it sounds like something besides MEP is causing it not to send.