Help regarding SMTP Email Send Message

[Jalashwa]

Hello everyone,

i am working on the SMTP Email Send Message using labview .  i have connected the terminals as suggested in the Context Help and i can run the VI but a keep getting a lot of errors.

Needless to say i cant send the mail .

i have enclosed the vi , shall be grateful if somone can suggest any modifications so that the VI works.

I have also seen the GMAIL.vi but dont want to use as it seems complicated. 

Thanks in advance 

[Pankajusic]

Hi Sindhurakshak,

I have checked the code and it's working fine for me. I think the problem is with your SMTP server. Please check SMTP server name adn try it it should work. 

For shake of testing I have changed the SMTP server name and it works fantastic.

Thanks

[Jalashwa]

hello Pankajusic,

Thanks for reviewing the code. 

 i was under the notion that the SMTP Server remains the same for a given company . For example, for google it is smtp.gmail.com and the like.

Request you to post your vi with the modifications you have made. 

Further , how i can i find my SMTP server name ?

I am using LabVIEW 2011.

Regards

Jalashwa 

[RavensFan]

Are you sure Gmail's server will take SMTP mail?  I don't think it does because it would be and easy gateway for spam.

You need your company's e-mail server, and them set up to allow you to give it smtp mail based on that fact they should have already authenticated your PC on their domain.

[Jalashwa]

Hello Ravens Fan,

i delved more into SMTP in Google and found out the following steps:

1. Open up a command prompt (CMD.exe)
2. Type nslookup and hit enter
3. Type set type=MX and hit enter
4. Type the domain name and hit enter, for example: google.com
5. The results will be a list of host names that are set up for SMTP

I am attaching a pic of my cmd after executing the steps. I updated the mail server in the SMTP Email Send Message block diagram and i got an error. i have also attached the pic for that 

It would be very kind of you if you could guide me through 

Regards

Jalashwa

[Phil_]

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@RavensFan wrote:

Are you sure Gmail's server will take SMTP mail?  I don't think it does because it would be and easy gateway for spam.

You need your company's e-mail server, and them set up to allow you to give it smtp mail based on that fact they should have already authenticated your PC on their domain.

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A little off track with regard to solving the specific problem, but to answer RavensFan's point:

Yes, Gmail does allow you to use SMTP. This is how you use other email clients (Outlook, Thunderbird etc) to send/receive things from your gmail account.

(a quick Google confirms this).

[Pankajusic]

Hi, 

I have chnaged smtp  name as per our company mail server and it's worked fine. that is the only chnge i did there.

I found something on internet that might help you.

https://forums.ni.com/t5/Example-Code/GMAIL-vi/ta-p/3996207

Thanks

pankaj 

[PhillipBrooks]

In order to use Google's SMTP server function, you must authenticate using TLS/SSL.

The LabVIEW SMTP functions are natively written in LabVIEW and have no support for TLS/SSL.

[Jalashwa]

thanks for the info ,

i have tried others like yahoo and rediff.com but i just cant get over the errors i am getting 

Regards

[Hooovahh]

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@PhillipBrooks wrote:

In order to use Google's SMTP server function, you must authenticate using TLS/SSL.

The LabVIEW SMTP functions are natively written in LabVIEW and have no support for TLS/SSL. 

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That document is out of date.  LabVIEW 2013 has had email VIs revamed tp support TLS.  I've not used these but remember it from the release notes.

https://www.ni.com/docs/en-US/bundle/labview-api-ref/page/menus/categories/data-communication/protoc...