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"Robert G. Hoover" <not.a.real.address@anywhere.sorry> wrote in message 
news:47c80f8b$1@newsgroups.borland.com...

> It seems to me that I'm talking the SMTP talk and for some
> reason (probably specific to the customer's security) my talk
> is coming back void...

Meaning what exactly?  You need to be more specific.

> Here's my code... sorry for the formatting... does anything jump
> out to you?

Well, for one thing, you are doing everything manually instead of using an 
actual SMTP component.  You are not implementing the SMTP protocol even 
remotely correct at all.  You are sending all of your commands as one big 
string, which is the wrong way to handle SMTP.  You are using "\n" for every 
line break between commands when you need to use "\r\n" instead.  And you 
are not processing any of the SMTP replies at all.

I strongly suggest you drop your code altogether and use a real SMTP 
component instead, such as from Indy or ICS.  Let it do all of the low-level 
work for you.

> If I pair up the communications, I suppose it would look like this...

Almost.  You have to wait for the greeting to arrive before sending the EHLO 
command, which will have its own reply (that you have not shown).

> mail from:myemail@mydomain.com

You need to enclose email addresses in angle brackets:

    mail from:<myemail@mydomain.com>

    rcpt to:<someone@theirdomain.com>

> data
>
> 500 5.3.3 Unrecognized command
>
> from:
>
> 500 5.3.3 Unrecognized command
<snip>

Everything after the DATA command is arbitrary message text.  It is not a 
series of SMTP commands.


Gambit