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[isladogs]

Very strange! If you send me a PM with your email, I can forward it to you as an attachment but I'm not sure that will help.
Can you download any other files from this forum?

 

[Gasman]

Still BitDefender thinks it is a problem. Will try to deactivate or try from another pc.

Might want to advise BitDefender as well?

 

[JohnPapa]

Might want to advise BitDefender as well?

I will once I am successful receiving it.

Very strange! If you send me a PM with your email, I can forward it to you as an attachment but I'm not sure that will help.
Can you download any other files from this forum?

I have just sent you a message.

I never had a problem downloading anything from the forum.

 

[Gasman]

Just to say, I downloaded it from here no problem.
It is just a text file after all? and only 21K in size.

 

[isladogs]

I will once I am successful receiving it.

I have just sent you a message.

I never had a problem downloading anything from the forum.

I've just emailed it to you as an attachment.
If even that gets blocked, I can put it in the body of an email

Just as an experiment, its also now available as a direct download from my site

https://isladogs.co.uk/dl/email-tester/modEmail.txt

EDIT: 17 Nov - I have just moved it to a different folder due to a permissions issue

 

[gemma-the-husky]

We used CDO/SMTP at a client but we used a single mailbox to store a bcc of everything sent.

sort of smtp_admin@domain.com. So rather than all users getting a bcc of their own emails, all the emails are in a single place. It's used to send customer support stuff - quotations and the like, so it's a good way to have all the automated emails available.

 

[JohnPapa]

One additional question, relevant to the thread.

Using CDO/SMTP is there a way to check if an email has been sent/delivered?

 

[isladogs]

My demo CDO app has code to confirm emails have been sent successfully.
AFAIAA there is no code that can confirm it arrived but you will get a standard bounce message when it cannot be delivered

 

[JohnPapa]

My demo CDO app has code to confirm emails have been sent successfully.
AFAIAA there is no code that can confirm it arrived but you will get a standard bounce message when it cannot be delivered

I still the same problem with downloading your file. I have just replied to the email you sent me back on 17-11-2022.

 

[arnelgp]

ron de bruin has an Excel sample on CDO:
Sending mail from Excel with CDO (rondebruin.nl)

 

[isladogs]

I still the same problem with downloading your file. I have just replied to the email you sent me back on 17-11-2022.

Only 4 months later .... perhaps not a priority?

I'll reply by email again straight after this

EDIT:
Emailed you 6 times with & without attachments
1. With text file & zip file attached
2. Just the zip file
3. Just the text file
4. No attachment - code included in email body
5. As 3 above
6. As 4 above

ALL bounced - it even says its malware when there is no attachment
So it must be scanning the contents and doing a false flag

Think you need to check with whoever manages both your email & with BitDefender re forum download

False Positives - Sanesecurity ClamAV: Phishing, Spam & Malware Signatures

 

[isladogs]

Hi
Just sent you 5 emails to the new address. Three had attachments or code in the email body. Those 3 bounced

 

[JohnPapa]

I am still having a problem with getting a notification if the email has not been delivered in case of for example an invalid email.

I have investigated sending automatically emails via SMTP and Outlook (invoking Outlook automatically)

The email which I am trying to send is made of the following
1) An invalid TO email
2) An invalid CC email
3) A valid CC email

The only time I receive a System Message for an undelivered email message is for 1) the invalid TO email

Should this be the case and is there a way to check for SMTP TO and CC and for the CC in Outlook?

Thanks,
John