VBScript help

sprkymrk

Looking for some help on a vbscript I have been using for years that suddenly stopped working a couple days ago. Here is the background -

I run this little script on my home computer via Task Scheduler, it runs once per hour on the hour from 6AM-5PM. I use it to send an email to myself at work to make sure outside mail is working. If I don't get an email at the top of the hour I make a quick check of everything. It's useful especially when a user says they are expecting an email from an outside source and haven't gotten it, I can at least verify that the problem probably is not a universal outage. So anyway, here is the script, minus the specific emails/server/recipient information:

SMTPServer = "mail.MY-ISP.net"
Recipient = "[email protected]"
From = "[email protected]"
Subject = "External Email Test"
Message = "This is a test message to verify email functionality from outside." 

GenericSendmail SMTPserver, From, Recipient, Subject, Message 

' Begin Sub
' ------------------------------------------------------------------
' Generic function to send mail using a remote
' SMTP server. Pass SMTPserver, From address, 
' Recipient address, Subject, and Message as arguments
' ------------------------------------------------------------------
Sub GenericSendmail (SMTPserver, From, Recipient, Subject, Message) 

set msg = WScript.CreateObject("CDO.Message")
msg.From = From
msg.To = Recipient
msg.Subject = Subject
msg.TextBody = Message


msg.Configuration.Fields ("http://schemas.microsoft.com/cdo/configuration/smtpserver") = SMTPServer
msg.Configuration.Fields("http://schemas.microsoft.com/cdo/configuration/sendusing") = 2

msg.Configuration.Fields.Update

msg.Send

End Sub

The error I get is on the line with "msg.Send". For the last two days it kicks up the error:
"The transport failed to connect to the server".
Code 80040213
Source CDO.Message.1

Help! Thanks!

theseman

Interesting, this works fine for me. ISP SMTP problems perhaps? I'm assuming you sent a test email without the script thru your ISP?

-Travis

theseman

Just tried something else:

The DSL provider I have only allows you to send email from their network. I connected to the local cable provider and attempted to send thru the DSL SMTP server and it returned your listed error.

I would then assume it is an issue with the ISP, not the script itself.


-Travis

sprkymrk

Thanks for checking it out for me. AFAIK nothing has changed on the ISP side. I can still send and recieve email, using those same settings, from an email client like Outlook or OE. It just won't work with the script. I can launch the script and watch it fail. Then I can open Outlook and using the same ISP and email address I can send/receive just fine. It's worked for about 3 years and once in a while it would fail if the DSL modem hicupped, but otherwise was just fine. Then about 2 days ago it just plain won't work.

But I agree, it would seem to be more of a problem with the ISP. Maybe they started requiring authentication in order to send, as I do (and always have had) that setting checked in Outlook. I'll have to see if I can script a new mail message using Outlook, or find a way to authenticate in my script.

I am open to other ideas.

theseman

Came across this script to send the credentials for SMTP servers that require authentication. Might be worth a shot!!!

EDIT: Just tested both on my home network, with an ISP that does not require authentication. Both scripts work, so can't really test the authentication part of this one.

-Travis

Const cdoSendUsingPickup = 1 'Send message using the local SMTP service pickup directory. 
Const cdoSendUsingPort = 2 'Send the message using the network (SMTP over the network). 

Const cdoAnonymous = 0 'Do not authenticate
Const cdoBasic = 1 'basic (clear-text) authentication
Const cdoNTLM = 2 'NTLM

Set objMessage = CreateObject("CDO.Message") 
objMessage.Subject = "Example CDO Message" 
objMessage.From = """Me"" <[email protected]>" 
objMessage.To = "[email protected]" 
objMessage.TextBody = "This is some sample message text.." & vbCRLF & "It was sent using SMTP authentication."

'==This section provides the configuration information for the remote SMTP server.

objMessage.Configuration.Fields.Item _
("http://schemas.microsoft.com/cdo/configuration/sendusing") = 2 

'Name or IP of Remote SMTP Server
objMessage.Configuration.Fields.Item _
("http://schemas.microsoft.com/cdo/configuration/smtpserver") = "mail.your.com"

'Type of authentication, NONE, Basic (Base64 encoded), NTLM
objMessage.Configuration.Fields.Item _
("http://schemas.microsoft.com/cdo/configuration/smtpauthenticate") = cdoBasic

'Your UserID on the SMTP server
objMessage.Configuration.Fields.Item _
("http://schemas.microsoft.com/cdo/configuration/sendusername") = "youruserid"

'Your password on the SMTP server
objMessage.Configuration.Fields.Item _
("http://schemas.microsoft.com/cdo/configuration/sendpassword") = "yourpassword"

'Server port (typically 25)
objMessage.Configuration.Fields.Item _
("http://schemas.microsoft.com/cdo/configuration/smtpserverport") = 25 

'Use SSL for the connection (False or True)
objMessage.Configuration.Fields.Item _
("http://schemas.microsoft.com/cdo/configuration/smtpusessl") = False

'Connection Timeout in seconds (the maximum time CDO will try to establish a connection to the SMTP server)
objMessage.Configuration.Fields.Item _
("http://schemas.microsoft.com/cdo/configuration/smtpconnectiontimeout") = 60

objMessage.Configuration.Fields.Update

'==End remote SMTP server configuration section==

objMessage.Send

sprkymrk

Thanks for that theseman, I'll test it out this afternoon and let you know.

sprkymrk

Works great, thanks for finding that theseman. It is much appreciated.

theseman

No problem, I can't write the stuff, but I am pretty good at finding what I need! lol.

-Travis