I am so glad there is a resource for Emailer out on the Internet. Even
if it can't answer this question, I am still glad there's such a vital
community still supporting this great piece of software. I used it for
what seemed like forever, until I moved to 10.1 or thereabouts. There
are still things that I miss about it.
Currently I have Emailer running on a machine that does some
AppleScript stuff with incoming and outgoing mail. (It's a little
community, the database is HyperCard. Isn't that cute? The community
has been running since 1987 and the Emailer solution was set up in
1996. I tried to redo everything in tcl/html/sql in 2002 but I had
some resistance from the community.)
It's been a trial keeping the outgoing mail server available, since
everything out on the 'net seems locked down. Eventually I wound up at
this solution:
postfix is running under MacOS 10.5.5 on an Intel Mac at a static IP
on the LAN 192.254.64.23
Emailer 2.0v3 is running under OS 9.0.4 running on a Raspberry iMac
(96mb RAM, 6g HDD)
In the Accounts setup I was able to just put the IP address of the
Intel machine and it would happily allow the OS9 machine to send out
mail. (It then hands it off to aliencamel.com, who let me relay since
I have a couple accounts there and they were able to walk me through
the postfix config.)
Emailer has stopped sending out mail. It logs "Network stream error"
on each attempt. Previously restarting the machine would solve this,
which seemed to pop up twice a year or so. Restarting this time didn't
help. I also have it running continuously and since there's no
(active) garbage collection on the mail files they grow unbounded. So
I occasionally go out to the garage, quit Emailer, have lunch, and
come back to do a Typical Rebuild and it stays happy.
The first message waiting is Oct 21 08 12:07am
The machine loads web pages just fine. My OS9 skills have withered
away and I cannot remember how to ping a machine on the LAN, but I've
tried sending mail directly from the OS X machine (via mail at a
command line) and it definitely still handles outgoing mail through
postfix.
Hints?
1. If there's an account provider someone knows that accepts Emailer's
less-than-secure login to send mail out, that would be a boon.
2. Did something happen on Oct 20 2008? Maybe OS X was updated with
some stiff firewall that needs to be told to let through OS9's meek
requests for SMTP?
3. How might I diagnose further? I'm computer literate, but definitely
learn just enough to get myself in trouble. The AppleScripts that
handle the HyperCard-Emailer traffic, for instance, were written by
someone else. The HyperCard work, though, that was all me.
Thanks!
--Colin
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