[cse491] spambot help

[Andrew Thielking]

Even after changing both the MAIL FROM and RCPT TO addresses to be the same
thing, my spam bot seems to just 'hang' at the sock.recv(4096) after
sock.sendall(MAIL FROM: nermal at cse491.msu.idyll.org)

On Sun, Sep 27, 2009 at 6:36 PM, Phil Deschaine <deschai5 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Put the <username>@cse491.msu.idyll.org in both the MAIL FROM: and RCPT
> TO: and see if it shows up in your email.  I was having the exact same
> problem and that's what fixed it for me.
>
> -Phil
>
>
> On Sun, Sep 27, 2009 at 6:26 PM, C. Titus Brown <ctb at msu.edu> wrote:
>
>> On Sun, Sep 27, 2009 at 12:41:37PM -0700, Maitland Marsh wrote:
>> > I've copied the code out of the lab, and the only things I've changed
>> are
>> > the recipient email address and adding some print statements. When I run
>> it
>> > it looks like everything is returning ok, but no email has come in the
>> past
>> > 20 minutes.
>> > I originally went for all the functionality, then stripped it down to be
>> > just what was in the lab. Still no luck.
>> > I've put the file in my repository under trunk.
>>
>> I'm in an airport right now and I don't have time to do much more than
>> write e-mails, but: check your spam filter.
>>
>> If you get the 'OK' at the end from the server, then your code is
>> working ok and there's just some spam-related problem between my server
>> and your eyeballs.
>>
>> cheers,
>> --titus
>> --
>> C. Titus Brown, ctb at msu.edu
>>
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