Sending E-mail file attachments

lcrltd · Post by **lcrltd** » Fri Nov 17, 2006 11:13 am

I am trying to automate sending a file once a day via e-mail (smtp)

When I use it I always get

Result of SendMail: 354 START MAIL INPUT, END WITH "." ON A LINE BY ITSELF

It works fine if I do not request to attach a file?

I have tried files with .txt and .pdf extensions.

My server is via AOL on port 587 if that helps?

Post by **Marcus Tettmar** » Fri Nov 17, 2006 11:37 am

Sounds like AOL is blocking the attachment. It probably wants a different encoding format or something. Not much you can do about it apart from use a different SMTP server. AOL email is notorious. I've lost count of the number of problems I've had sending email to AOL. I would try to avoid sending email via AOL completely!

You might want to google: AOL "354 START MAIL INPUT"

lcrltd · Post by **lcrltd** » Fri Nov 17, 2006 12:37 pm

Ok thanks for that , I have tried it via a Non-AOL server and its perfect , thanks for that.