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I have coded this program in asm which sends emails, the problem is that it sends the email when i test it on my local host and everything seems to be go without a hitch, but when i tested it on "mx2.hotmail.com:25" it ALSO worked, the server even replied "mail queued for delivery" but the email was never sent to me. has anybody got any ideas?

the data that i sent was:

MAIL FROM: someemail@hotmail.com
RCPT TO: myemail@hotmail.com
DATA

Subject: Hey dude
From: someemail@hotmail.com
To: myemail@hotmail.com

Blah blah blah

.
QUIT

You can't do that to hotmail. They have the sender id attached to their own hotmail accounts.

You probably also want to at least put a Date: header in there along with your From: To: and Subject: .  Most virus/spam checkers score big on a  missing Date: header because that is a sign of a script kiddie smtp engine.

Some SMTP servers also require you to HELO a domain name:

HELO csa.shacknet.nu
MAIL FROM: bkeller@csa.shacknet.nu
RCPT TO: bkeller@codegurus.org
DATA
Testing smtp data
test
test
.

That worked for my mail server, unfortunately my Host doesn't allow anyone but localhost to send email so I had to ssh in then telnet to localhost:25. But my host does require the HELO else it fails to send.

Regards,
Bryant Keller

Generally I would use DD Month YY HH:MM:SS as specified in the RFC-0821. Here is an example from that RFC.

         S: MAIL FROM:<>
         R: 250 ok
         S: RCPT TO:<@HOSTX.ARPA:JOE@HOSTW.ARPA>
         R: 250 ok
         S: DATA
         R: 354 send the mail data, end with .
         S: Date: 23 Oct 81 11:22:33
         S: From: SMTP@HOSTY.ARPA
         S: To: JOE@HOSTW.ARPA
         S: Subject: Mail System Problem
         S:
         S:   Sorry JOE, your message to SAM@HOSTZ.ARPA lost.
         S:   HOSTZ.ARPA said this:
         S:    "550 No Such User"
         S: .
         R: 250 ok

S is what's sent, R is what's recieved.