Yes Blat does need to know the address of an SMTP server to work.

Your best best is to get the local IIS to act as an SMTP relay - the error you are getting is simply an indication of its unwillingness to relay as you have got the configuration incorrect. I am assuming here that you are using Windows 2000 and you have an administrative account (the instructions are similar for XP).

The default configuration of the SMTP service on Windows 2000 SP2 and better is not to relay at all so you are going to have to allow connections and relaying from the localhost only:

• First open internet services manager in the administrative tools menu.
• Expand the local server in the tree view on the left and righ click on "default SMTP virtual server" and select "Properties"
• Select the "Access" tab. Firstly click on the Authentication button and check that "Anonymous access" is checked.
• Back on the access property page click the "Connection control" button". Select the "only the list below" radio button and click the "Add" button, in the "Computer" page that appears check "Group" of computers: put "127.0.0.0" in subnet address and "255.255.255.0" in Subnet mask. Press "Ok". Press "Ok" to leave the connectin dialogue.
• Click the "Relay restrictions" button. In the "Relay restrictions" dialogue check "only the list below" is checked, then press add. In the "Computer" page that appears check "Group" of computers: put "127.0.0.0" in subnet address and "255.255.255.0" in Subnet mask. Press "Ok". Press okay to leave the "Relay restrictions" dialogue. Press OKay to leave the properties page.
• Stop and restart the SMTP service by using the buttons on the right of the toolbar.

Et Voila!

/J\

And for those who aren't familiar with localhost -- you'll have to specifically connect to the loopback address for this to work. If your outgoing IP address is 10.0.0.1, you'd not be able to pass mail if you connect to that e-mail address.

You would need to set your SMTP server in whatever other program to 127.0.0.1

I'm on windoze also. I use Mail::Sendmail, but you need to know your smtp server! Edit the module and make the changes to reflect your smtp server and then edit\run this code to send an e-mail

#print "sending email";
my $Msg = "my first email";
my %mail = ( To => 'YOU@YOUREMAIL.com',
Cc => 'SOMEONE@SOMEWHERE.com',
From => 'HOST@SOMEWHERE.com',

Subject => "Message",
Message => "$Msg \n");
sendmail(%mail) or die $Mail::Sendmail::error;
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Hi,!

thanks for the replies everyone.

I just followed gellyfish 's detailed instructions on configuring my IIS to allow relay connections for my SMTP at localhost and I finally got it to work!

As of now, all I can hope is that I'm not the only one who had this problem with sending e-mail on Windows. Hopefully anyone who was in my situation --(Has adminstrative access to there Windows server and trying to allow your SMPT to relay so your perl script can work!) --then they can use this thread to solve their problem.

It took so long sitting last night w/out accomplishing anything only because I took the time to try to get all three modules working to send e-mail, read all three e-mail sending module doc's, smpt related info, and basic IIS smpt config that in the long run didn't help much but give me a bit more knowledge.

Thanks tanger

#!perl
use strict;
use warnings;
use Net::SMTP;

sub send_page {
    my ($host, $address, $subject, $message) = @_;
    my $smtp = Net::SMTP->new($host);
    $smtp->mail("sendlog.pl\@localhost");
    $smtp->to("$address");
    $smtp->data();
    $smtp->datasend("To: $address\n");
    $smtp->datasend("Subject: $subject\n");
    $smtp->datasend("$message");
    $smtp->dataend();
    $smtp->quit;
}
1;
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