[cse491] spambot help

[Joseph Blossom]

Are you running on arctic?
If you are, and you copy the lab exactly and make the small additions of the
command-line args, it should work without any problems.

On Sun, Sep 27, 2009 at 10:15 PM, Andrew Thielking <thielkin at msu.edu> wrote:

> 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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