Re^4: Mail::Sender Problems.

Are you trying to connect directly to a MTA?

The preferred method is to send the email to your mail machine ( MTA ), and let that machine (MTA) deliver the mail for you.

When using a dynamic IP address most ISPs will require Pop-before-SMTP or SMTP authentication before allowing you to send mail to their users

Thank you

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Re^5: Mail::Sender Problems. by Steve_BZ (Chaplain) on Aug 09, 2012 at 18:00 UTC
Hi Ed, The way I think Mail::Sender works is like most clients, it logs on to the server (ie my ISP, in this case I am using a private sevice called authsmtp (which I recommend, although you have to pay a minimal fee for it) using these parameters: `auth => 'PLAIN', authid => 'user', # Change this. authpwd => 'password', # Change this. smtp => 'mail.authsmtp.com',` [download] then it sends from my email address, which has already been registered on the service. I was sure it would work, but as we speak, no light is shining at the end of the tunnel :( Regards Steve	[reply] [d/l]
Re^6: Mail::Sender Problems. by flexvault (Monsignor) on Aug 09, 2012 at 19:12 UTC
Hi Steve, It's not for me to say whether the service is good/bad/ugly! However, a true MTA does a DNS domain look-up of the MX records for each email 'to/cc/bcc'. What you are showing is the method to connect to authsmtp's server and not how they handle your request. Are your requests to authsmtp's server failing? If that is failing, then the service may be overloaded, poor internet connection, etc. I'll send you a private msg with my email address. I think this is out-of-scope for PM, but I have some ideas on how to help you. Look for my msg and maybe we can get it working for you. Regards...Ed "Well done is better than well said." - Benjamin Franklin	[reply]