Re: VSoup URL bug?
Hardy Griech (rgriech@ibm.net)
Sat, 07 Sep 1996 12:46:31 +0200
On Fri, 06 Sep 1996 18:44:14 -0500, pcrown@airmail.net (Phil Crown) wrote:
> VSoup URL Bug?
>
> I cannot connect to my pop3 server to send mail when using the URL
> method of addressing. I can receive mail fine.
>
> Everything was working fine until I deleted \tcpip\etc\tcpos2.ini.
> I deleted this file because I am trying to get my system setup so I
> don't have to rely on this file, since I don't use the IBM dialers.
> The problem is the only way to make changes to tcpos2.ini is to have the
> (forgot the name, slippm?) IBM Dialer installed. Does this make sense?
>
> Here are my results:
>
> Gets mail ok:
>
> vsoup -i -n pop3://userid:password@mail.mymail.net
> vsoup: connected to pop3 server mail.mymail.net
> vsoup: you have 0 mail messages
>
> Cannot send mail:
>
> vsoup -i -s pop3://userid:password@mail.mymail.net
> vsoup: cannot connect to smtp gateway .
> Souper returned 1
>
> vsoup -i -s pop3://userid:password@mail.mymail.net
> vsoup: cannot connect to smtp gateway .
> Souper returned 1
>
> I verified this with SIO's PMLM and VIEWPMLM.
:
Sorry, this seems to be a misunderstanding on your side (or a lack of
documentation on the VSoup side!?). Mail is not delivered thru POP3,
in fact it is delivered thru SMTP. This means, you have to use the
smtp:// URL! But therefor you need to know the name of your smtp
server, which will be different to your pop3 server. Also for smtp
you don't need a user:password parameter. You can give it to VSoup,
but it will be ignored... So your call of VSoup for Mail-Xmt should
look like this:
vsoup -i -s smtp://smtp.gateway nntp://user:passwd@nntp.server
BTW: you should also specify your nntp server, because vsoup (just
like souper) are delivering EMAIL and NEWS at the same time!
Hardy
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