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snuk wrote:
why would I need authentification? I just want to receive an e-mail on my yahoo mail account! it's like you're sending an e-mail from an on-line bowser game to an e-mail... or...that's how I see it!
Because of the spam situation nowadays there are virtually no email providers that can allow to have unauthentificated access to their mailing servers. So you have to have an account and according password and that has to be entered somehow when you try to establish a connection to the server. Apart from various protocols to connect to a mailing server each of them supports various ways of authentification, and some servers support only method X and others only method Y.
The LabVIEW provided SMTP VIs do not implement any form of authentification, because they involve various forms of encryption technology that is not only hard to support but also legally challenging when distributing software all over the world.
This limitation was fine a few years ago, before the spammers discovered their perverted pleasure but nowadays these VIs will only work when contacting a mailing server that allows open access, and any sane system administrator will only allow that for clients that reside behind the same firewall that their mailing server is located, e.g. your employers mailing server as long as you are connected to the local network, either directly or through some form of VPN.
Rolf Kalbermatter
First there are probably some free smtp servers that do not require authentification, for whatever curious reasons. Second you do not want to use those servers since they are long ago put on blacklists and have no chance of getting of those lists as long as they are open servers since they get heavily abused as spam sources. You would risk your mails being blocked by most modern spam filters for coming from that server.
If you mean free SMTP email VIs that support authentification, I think the aforementioned OpenG VIs are your best bet. The VIs from me you found were just some form of trial and while I have some updated VIs that work with some authentifications I'm not able to post them for free.
Rolf Kalbermatter
