Gene Wirchenko wrote:
> "Paul Pedersen" <nospam@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>
>> "Gene Wirchenko" <genew@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
>> news:294ki3hj7p48ciuqjkuqpitiegib85u92l@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>>> I don't understand your point number 1. What do you mean it
"complains"?
>>>> I've done that with no particular problems.
>>> The complaint is a message marked as from the System
>>> Administrator (no E-mail address).
>> Then you are going through Exchange? I haven't done that.
>
> Not to my knowledge, but how would I find out?
>
> [snip]
>
>> oMail.to = "joe@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
"
>
> I can send E-mail, but why is
> Joe Blow <joe@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> a problem?
>
Because Outlook 97 is NOT internet email compliant. It sort of works,
but just barely if you hold you tongue right and the wind is just right.
>
>>>> I don't understand number 2 either. Did the email go out or didn't
it? Are
>>>> you trying to receive as well?
>
> Yes.
>
> Yes. After all, someone will receive the E-mail. I should see
> that that works.
>
>>> It went out. I can see it with my ISP's Web interface.
>>>
>>> Trying to receive it into Outlook fails. Outlook apparently
>>> receives it -- it goes through the motions -- but the post is not
>>> picked up and is still at my ISP.
>> Now I'm really confused.
>>
>> Oh, you mean you can receive it with web mail, but not with Outlook?
>
> Yes. I can see it using the Web interface that my ISP provides.
> Outlook fails to retrieve it.
>
Again, this is because outlook 97 can't really handle SMTP email
properly. You need at LEAST outlook 98 to be mostly internet compliant
and frankly outlook 2000 would be better. I don't think versions past
that point actually handle internet email any better, they just add more
glitter to the mix.
>> That's a different issue then. Can you send out email from Outlook by
hand,
>> then receive it using Outlook? If so, find out what's different between
>
> No, manual E-mail fails the same way.
>
>> emails you created by hand and those created programmatically. If not,
maybe
>> your company is on its own spam list, or has something else blocking
>> incoming mail.
>
> This is on my personal system.
Well if you must use outlook, at least us a version that works.
--
Cy Welch
Senior Programmer
MetSYS Inc
http://www.metsysinc.com
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