Borland SMTP and Authentication?

[camperjohn64]

Has anyone ever successfully used the NMSMTP1 component of Borland to actually connect to a SMTP server?

Where do I put my Authentication and passwords?

NMSMTP1 -> Host = "mail.mccarthy.net";
NMSMTP1 -> UserID = "john";
NMSMTP1 -> Connect();

Ok that's great, but where do I put my password information so I can actually send an email??!?!?

Is the component faulty? Did Borland forget to add it to the component? If it is part of the "FinalHeader" property, what do I put in there?

 

[Totte]

But?
What password?

To _send_ e-mail you don't need password, the e-mail is actually just send out on the cyberspace without furter doing.

But you need to be connected to the ned somehow but that's another problem.

It's the recieving of e-mail where you have to log in on the POP3-server that requires password.

Totte
Keep making it perfect and it will end up broken.

 

[paskuda]

Totte,
original SMTP protocol does not include any authentication, that's true, but since first definition many things have changed. For example, there's [link ftp://ftp.isi.edu/in-notes/rfc2554.txt]RFC 2554[/url] which describes SMTP extension for authentication, and many service providers actually require you to authenticate before sending email.

camperjohn64,
I haven't used NMSMTP, but I think Indy sockets provide SMTP components with authentication possibility. Indy website is located here and there's some useful information in their knowledge base.

Hope that helps

 

[Totte]

Good, now i have learned something today

Totte
Keep making it perfect and it will end up broken.