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ok after quite a bit i finally have created a modern smtp server/client
where users can send receive emails from within WG without the need of a smarthost and it supports authentication for email sending as well as alternate port allowance for people using ISPs that block port 25, also did the same with the NNTP stuff and i am importing all kinds of newsgroups into my server now using my isp's news server, i am gonna release this later on free for 5.xx users and for 3.xx users we can work something out.

dspain wrote:ok after quite a bit i finally have created a modern smtp server/client
where users can send receive emails from within WG without the need of a smarthost and it supports authentication for email sending as well as alternate port allowance for people using ISPs that block port 25, also did the same with the NNTP stuff and i am importing all kinds of newsgroups into my server now using my isp's news server, i am gonna release this later on free for 5.xx users and for 3.xx users we can work something out.

Hey Dan!
Have you been able to test this out with a stupid isp that blocks 25? If you need a guinea pig, let me know. I would love to get my email finally running properly. Let's work something out!

dspain wrote:ok after quite a bit i finally have created a modern smtp server/client
where users can send receive emails from within WG without the need of a smarthost and it supports authentication for email sending as well as alternate port allowance for people using ISPs that block port 25, also did the same with the NNTP stuff and i am importing all kinds of newsgroups into my server now using my isp's news server, i am gonna release this later on free for 5.xx users and for 3.xx users we can work something out.

Sounds great. Let me know when you are ready.

Ragtop wrote:

dspain wrote:ok after quite a bit i finally have created a modern smtp server/client
where users can send receive emails from within WG without the need of a smarthost and it supports authentication for email sending as well as alternate port allowance for people using ISPs that block port 25, also did the same with the NNTP stuff and i am importing all kinds of newsgroups into my server now using my isp's news server, i am gonna release this later on free for 5.xx users and for 3.xx users we can work something out.

Hey Dan!
Have you been able to test this out with a stupid isp that blocks 25? If you need a guinea pig, let me know. I would love to get my email finally running properly. Let's work something out!

yes and it does work on alternate ports, i have sent mail from my wg system out using port 2525 under plain authentication.

i need to read more into the RFC to do normal authent as well.

Toyduck wrote:

dspain wrote:ok after quite a bit i finally have created a modern smtp server/client
where users can send receive emails from within WG without the need of a smarthost and it supports authentication for email sending as well as alternate port allowance for people using ISPs that block port 25, also did the same with the NNTP stuff and i am importing all kinds of newsgroups into my server now using my isp's news server, i am gonna release this later on free for 5.xx users and for 3.xx users we can work something out.

Sounds great. Let me know when you are ready.

will do.

dspain wrote:ok after quite a bit i finally have created a modern smtp server/client
where users can send receive emails from within WG without the need of a smarthost and it supports authentication for email sending as well as alternate port allowance for people using ISPs that block port 25, also did the same with the NNTP stuff and i am importing all kinds of newsgroups into my server now using my isp's news server, i am gonna release this later on free for 5.xx users and for 3.xx users we can work something out.

Any progress on this? Not trying to be pushy, just really looking forward to being able to send email

Ragtop wrote:

dspain wrote:ok after quite a bit i finally have created a modern smtp server/client
where users can send receive emails from within WG without the need of a smarthost and it supports authentication for email sending as well as alternate port allowance for people using ISPs that block port 25, also did the same with the NNTP stuff and i am importing all kinds of newsgroups into my server now using my isp's news server, i am gonna release this later on free for 5.xx users and for 3.xx users we can work something out.

Any progress on this? Not trying to be pushy, just really looking forward to being able to send email

not without the smarthost, im still reading through the RFC's and get it right, im about there, if i spend more time into it im sure its something small.

Looks like we have a winner here. I successfully sent several messages from the board to my regular email address without any problems. Just make sure to set it to send on a non-ssl port. I initially used ssl port 465, and it couldn't send on that, so I switched to my isp's alternate non-ssl port 80 and it went through perfectly.

Thanks for all your hard work Dan!

Ragtop wrote:Looks like we have a winner here. I successfully sent several messages from the board to my regular email address without any problems. Just make sure to set it to send on a non-ssl port. I initially used ssl port 465, and it couldn't send on that, so I switched to my isp's alternate non-ssl port 80 and it went through perfectly.

Thanks for all your hard work Dan!

your welcome.

i will look into the port stuff.

dspain wrote:

Ragtop wrote:Looks like we have a winner here. I successfully sent several messages from the board to my regular email address without any problems. Just make sure to set it to send on a non-ssl port. I initially used ssl port 465, and it couldn't send on that, so I switched to my isp's alternate non-ssl port 80 and it went through perfectly.

Thanks for all your hard work Dan!

your welcome.

i will look into the port stuff.

Sorry, that wasn't a complaint. I'm ecstatic that it's working. I was just giving an FYI so that anyone who may be having problems getting it to work will know not to set it to use an ssl port.

Thanks again

Ragtop wrote:

dspain wrote:

Ragtop wrote:Looks like we have a winner here. I successfully sent several messages from the board to my regular email address without any problems. Just make sure to set it to send on a non-ssl port. I initially used ssl port 465, and it couldn't send on that, so I switched to my isp's alternate non-ssl port 80 and it went through perfectly.

Thanks for all your hard work Dan!

your welcome.

i will look into the port stuff.

Sorry, that wasn't a complaint. I'm ecstatic that it's working. I was just giving an FYI so that anyone who may be having problems getting it to work will know not to set it to use an ssl port.

Thanks again

well we want it to work as a fully compliant standard smtp option for wg this will also include other authentication options used by other isp's what we have now is just a small stepping stone for what i have planned.

with this working we now have access to a better nntp option as well as list servers for wg.