Hi,

The last 3 days I've been reading up on how to setup a SMPT server on my Windows IIS and trying to use Perl to send mail using that smpt server. I realized that I didn't have too, and I spent the last 3 days researching for nothing.

Now I'm back here again trying to send mail using Perl on Windows. This is a daunting task, because I never got this to work. I got sendmail working on a Linux box , but not a Windows one.

Heres my scenario, I'm using Mail::Sendmail and found out that my smpt server is the one that my nameserver is hosted on. The provider is comcast, so the relay server is smpt.comcast.com. I was told that when using this, it'll recognize my machine and allow me to use it as a relay.

So my code is the following (which still doesn't send mail): 
use Mail::Sendmail;

# Set up some default configuration
unshift @{$Mail::Sendmail::mailcfg{'smtp'}} , 'smtp.comcast.com';
$Mail::Sendmail::mailcfg{'from'} = "test\@aol.com";

my %mail = (
  To => "mytestaddress\@aol.com",  #real add changed for this ex.
  Subject => "Test 1",
  Message => "Test number 1",
);

sendmail( %mail ) or print "Error: $Mail::Sendmail::error\n";
print "Sent Successfully";

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Now the above code, does not generate a Mail::Sendmail::error, and prints out "Sent Successfully", but I do not receive anything. Does anyone know if this would be a Perl problem I'm having or some setup I'm not doing correctly? Anyone dealt with using comcast relay server ? ahhh...I'm going nuts the last 3 days trying to get my perl script to send mail on windows.

Thanks for your time in reading all of this...
Brendan

In reply to Sending Mail Scenario with Windows by Anonymous Monk

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