in reply to Cdont's Type Mismatch

My guess is based on this: MSDN's CDONTS.newmail documentation.

Basically, you have: 
$objMail->Send($from,$to,$subject,$mailbody,$AttachFile);

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The send format says it wants: 
(optional) From as String, 
(optional) To as String, 
(optional) Subject as String, 
(optional) Body as Object or String, 
(optional) Importance as Long
Importance is a number, not a string, so it's going to throw the type incompatible error, perhaps. The $AttachFile looks like it would use the ->AttachFile method. Keep in mind I haven't tested this.

Any reason why you aren't using Mail::Sender or something a little more perl-ish? It works great for me on Windows and Linux. Good luck.

    --jaybonci

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Re: Re: Cdont's Type Mismatch
by Rafiq (Initiate) on Feb 26, 2003 at 12:19 UTC
    I would love to use Mail::Sender as I always have on a Linux system. Unfortunately our SMTP virtual server name is OOA and the code chokes on this code. I tried enetering OOA.usafa.af.mil but I get an error on that also. The SMTP server times out. Never had this problem with LINUX. I send the mail using both because it just easier to test and is not the reason for the problem. The code works fine until I add the $AttachFile part. It looks to me like I used the AttachFile Method correctly, evidently I did not. If I could figure out how I could get the sender module to work woth my SMTP virtual server I would be done ages ago becasue code resue would be swift and easy justice. Thanks for you help. Will keep plugging away.
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      Honestly, the problem may be name resolution. It's a little known solution, but you can hardcode mappings of IP addresses to names inside of the windows hosts file, just as in Linux.

      On windows 2000 I know it's in <RootDrive>:\winnt\system32\drivers\hosts

      It's a simple text file. Good luck with it. Mail debugging can be sinister.

          --jaybonci
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        My etc/host is showing this: 66.113.16.216 ALOweb.org 66.113.16.215 AFacademy.org 127.0.0.1 localhost so would my next step be 128.236.2.1 OOA or 128.236.2.1 OOA.usafa.af.mil since it is a virtual SMTP server these two confuse me the SMTP logs show it as OOA but we sit on the usafa.af.mil domain Thanks for your help this is why I love Linux the forbidden OS here go figure.
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      (Sorry for noticing this so late.)

      What version of Mail::Sender were you using? I seem to be able to connect to that server with Mail::Sender just fine (though it then of course kicks me out with "Local user "jenda@krynicky.cz" unknown on host".

      Where does it actually time out? When connecting to the server? Or sometime later? Did you try the debug=> option to see the conversation between the script and the mail server? I really don't see any reason why would the name of the server matter as long as it may be resolved to an IP address.

      Jenda
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