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Re: WOMailDelivery UnknownHostException: mailhost
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Re: WOMailDelivery UnknownHostException: mailhost


  • Subject: Re: WOMailDelivery UnknownHostException: mailhost
  • From: MadBrowser <email@hidden>
  • Date: Thu, 2 Oct 2003 13:15:42 -0700

My understanding is that WO tries to use a host called 'smtp' as the default host to send mail. I think it is assuming that the hostname 'smtp' could be looked up in DNS and would resolve to smtp.yourdomain.com and hopefully that would be valid.

I don't think it uses any settings from Mail or the Internet prefs, since you can deploy on Solaris, Windows, etc... and they don't have those apps.

I set my SMTP server explicitly in my code to MY SMTP server that I have running on my co-located deployment server. It is a sendmail server. The hostname isn't actually 'mail.host.com', I was just using that as an example. That should be replaced with a value for a real mail server.

I don't know if .Mac will allow you to send mail from a WebObjects app. I think you need your own mail server... You should be able to run one on your box...

-H

On Thursday, October 2, 2003, at 12:55  PM, Denis Stanton wrote:

Thank you for you help Hunter

I'm sure you are right about authentication, but I don't understand how my two computers at home work without me having to think about authentication, but the server located at the ISP is stuck on this. There must be something in the configuration that tells WO where to send.

The default value in each case is SMTPHost = smtp. Somehow WebObjects gets a proper smtp address. Do you know if it uses the email settings in Mail? The Internet System Preference also lists an Outgoing Mail Server, so I guess that's the logical place to set it.

Your "mail.host.com" is a value I haven't tried, or is that specific to your network? I haven't found anywhere that allows me to set user and password inside my program.

I thought it might be a block on port 25 so I fired up Mail on the server via Timbuktu and sent myself a message. That worked fine, and presumably passed out through port 25

Denis
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