SMTP sniffer?

I think someone once said it, what version of Rebol do you use? Just because I just remembered, that none of the official releases allows to add a realname to the sender. If that's your problem you could get one of the betas - if you don't like using them, just copy the 'send into your user.r, or try my patches. The latter one should be available on http://www.h-o-h.org/ If nothing of this helps, I guess I added SiMtPop to the page mentioned above. It's a "Simulated SMTP and POP Server" (Simulated, because it holds everything in memory, doesn't really check passwords, ... but it handles Outlook (was created to test Outlook locally), and it should be easy to add more debugging output. I hope that helps, (BTW, would have been too much of a coincidence too stand, had it been you ;-D (but that's an insider)) Ingo

I am using now "REBOL/View 1.2.8.3.1 3-Aug-2002".

I am sorry to bother you again, but how can I use it. Do I need to change something inside Outlook Express? Ciao Patrick

Were I to guess, I'd say you enter the name of your local machine plus the port number in the script for your SMTP Server. But I'd like to know the answer to this too. :) -- Sincerely, | For Everything there is a season and a time for Ed Dana | every purpose, under Heaven. A time of love, a Software Developer | time of hate. A time of war, a time of peace. A 1Ghz Athlon Amiga | time that you may embrace, a time to refrain from | embracing -- Ecclesiastes, the Bible. =========== http://OurWorld.CompuServe.com/Homepages/EDanaII ===========

Ed is right, in Outlook change your server configuration to be localhost and either change the the ports in Outlook to 8025 for smtp, and 8110 for pop, or change them in the script to be 25 and 110 for smtp and pop respectively. I am not sure where you'll have to make these changes, but I'd try in extras/services or extras/options find "internet email" and open configuration (I hope the english version is not too different from the german one). Then start the script, and try to send to any email address. As an example say you send to [local--home]. The mail will be stored in a mailbox called "local" (I'm really just dropping the "@" and everything after it). So you can read the mail with pop3, using "local" as user, and anything as password (this isn't checked at all). The script prints out what happens, but maybe not with sufficient detail, either add "copy line thru newline" instead of "thru newline" in the parse rule and print 'line, or ask me to do it. If you have any more questions, feel free to ask. Kind regards, Ingo

Bummer. Perhaps you did not recieve the email that shows how to get REBOL to send email to the list while preserving the name: I used the following code to send a message to the list (sanitized here to reduce spam bot harvesting): header: make system/standard/email [ From: { "My Name" <[myemail--myprovider--com]>} Subject: "Testing for pat665" Organization: "REBOL Base" ;following line *will* be replaced by listar Reply-To: [myemail--myprovider--com] X-mailer: [REBOL] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: "text/plain" ] send/header [rebol-list-email--the-rebol-name--com] "Test message" header --Scott Jones

Excellent, Ingo. I asked earlier about something like this, wanting to play around with it. So, how do I modify it to be a simple relay. I.e. I specify it in my mail app and then specify my real smtp server in it and have it forward the mail? BTW, I'm interested in the SMTP side only. I'm no smtp expert, so any clues appreciated. :) -- Sincerely, | Ed Dana | Life's but a knife's edge, anyway. Sooner or later Software Developer | people slip and get cut. 1Ghz Athlon Amiga | -- Larry McMurtry, Streets of Laredo

Yeahh, now I remember ... didn't make the connection then, I haven't trusted it with real email so far. Anyway creating a mail relay out of it shouldn't be that hard: First remove everything pop3 related: - pop3 - pop3dialog - recieve - the pop3block in dispatch What's left is much easier to understand, I gues. Now it depends on what you need it for: 1) if it's mostly for getting your mail away, you could change the save-mail function to a) send a new email. (Or b) save it for later sending.) 2) If you want to understand more about smtp, the smtp-rule gives you an overview on how an smtp connection works. Mind you, I'm no smtp expert either, I just started with reading a short overview, and then tweaked it until it seemed to work ;-) If you tell me what road you want to head down, I might do it when I have a little time over. Kind regards, Ingo

Maybe not, but you've got a better clue than I do. :)

Thanks for the tips, Ingo! :) I'll try 'em when I get a second. -- Sincerely, | What a piece of work is man! How noble in reason! Ed Dana | How infinite in faculties! In form and moving, how Software Developer | express and admirable! In action, how like an 1Ghz Athlon Amiga | angel! In apprehension, how like a god! | -- William Shakespeare, Hamlet Act II Sc ii