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BBCBASIC: Windows: Network: Socklib: E-mail: Send: How to connect to port 25 of SMTP server?

Feb 5th, 2006 12:42
Knud van Eeden,

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--- Knud van Eeden --- 05 February 2021 - 07:33 pm -------------------
BBCBASIC: Windows: Network: Socklib: E-mail: Send: How to connect to 
port 25 of SMTP server?
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Steps: Overview:
 1. -Create the following program
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 host$ ="mail.yahoo.com" : REM change this possibly to the name or IP 
address of your SMTP server
 port$ = "25" : REM change this possibly
 errorB% = FALSE
 INSTALL @lib$+"SOCKLIB"
 PROC_initsockets
 listenI% = FN_tcpconnect( host$, port$ )
 PRINT listenI%
 errorB% = ( listenI% < 0 ) : REM negative value returned meaning an 
error
 IF errorB% PRINT "error = "; FN_socketerror
 PROC_exitsockets
 END
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 2. -If you run this program it will e.g. show
     -5
     error = 10022
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Note:
The error code numbers can be found in the Microsoft file WINERROR.H.
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Tested successfully on
Microsoft Windows XP Professional (service pack 2),
running BBCBASIC for Windows v5.01a
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[help: program: BBCBASIC for Windows v5.01a or higher: search 
for 'socklib']
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Internet: see also:
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BBCBASIC: Windows: Network: Socklib: Link: Overview: Can you give an 
overview of links?
http://www.faqts.com/knowledge_base/view.phtml/aid/39533/fid/768
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