RE: need help

"'Mike Mattos' [email protected] [blat]" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.mail.blat
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I use blat with Foxpro 9 and Windows 10, so no issues there.

 

Test everything at the command prompt first. And you may find with W10 that 32bit and 64bit issues arise.

 

There are 64bit and 32bit versions of blat.   I’d try both.

 

Also, is there an SSL issue?

 

 

Mike Mattos

 

“To succeed in the world it is not enough to be stupid, you must also be well-mannered”



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From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] 
Sent: March 26, 2016 3:34 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: [blat] need help

 

  

 

I am a first time blat user

 

I have legacy visual FoxPro programs now running in version 9

 

I wish to use blat to sent email 

 

I HAVE THE FOLLOWING PROBLEM

 

- I have installed blat.exe in c:\windows\system32 folder of a windows 10 desktop 

with the following command in dos window

 

 

- I have a mail account in outlook by the name [email protected]

 

 

blat -install smtp-mail.outlook.com [email protected]

 

successfully without any error message

 

- I have a text file in the current path having the name blattest.txt

 

- the following command from the c:>  dos prompt 

 

blat blattest.txt -to [email protected] -subject "test subject"

 

 

returns the error messages

 

*** error *** the smtp server does not like the sender name

*** error *** have you set your mail address correctly

 

I am thus STUCK AT THE VERY FIRST STEP

 

CAN ANYONE HELP ME PAST THE INITIAL HURDLE

 

THANKS IN ADVANCE

 

LALIT GUPTA

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