DiskCheckup E-Mail notification

[discovery]

Well, how are we supposed to use that feature? I know not a single mail server that will accept and relay anything without authentication. All the server answer is "Unrecognized command".

Or maybe this is a joke I'm not getting.

[David (PassMark)]

Although less common now, there were a lot of POP3 Authenticated SMTP gateways.
Meaning that you authenticate once using POP3, then the gateway remains open for hours / days for your IP address. And there no need to authenticatewith SMTP for sending E-mail.

Plus there are internal gateways (on a intranet) which may be open.

But clearly we need to support at least the common SMTP authentication options in a future release.

[discovery]

But clearly we need to support at least the common SMTP authentication options in a future release.

Sounds good. One other thing, since 3.0 a lot of information is being written to DiskCheckupLog.txt which almost looks like a debug file. It just keeps growing and growing so I had to make it write protected.

[David (PassMark)]

We have just released build 1003, and now we support SMTP authentication with a user name and password.

Logging is now only done when the -d command line options is used.

[discovery]

No luck, it seems the server requires SSL connections. It fails saying: "Must issue a STARTTLS command first".

I have no other email servers I could send mails from.


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Starting DiskCheckup with the CHECKTEC command line will leave the tray icon behind as a ghost. This doesn't happen when the program is closed manually.

[David (PassMark)]

EMail encryption is harder to implement. Probably take us a few days to do and test if we did it. But we have other higher priorities at the moment.

[discovery]

No need to hurry, I will gladly wait for such a feature. Not sure if it was after updating from build 1001 to 1002 or to 2003 but the "Record SMART attributes for TEC computation" was unchecked in 2003. I did check it again and DiskCheckup is recording the values.

[idnno]

EMail encryption is harder to implement. Probably take us a few days to do and test if we did it. But we have other higher priorities at the moment.

I really like this software, but i would like the STARTLS ssl option for sending the notification emails please.

Thanks.