CODEWITHSUNDEEP
emailvbscript
Tarun Singh
Tarun Singh

Reputation: 11

The transport failed to connect to the server error

Set emailObj      = CreateObject("CDO.Message")

emailObj.Sender   = "[email protected]"
emailObj.To       = "[email protected]"

emailObj.Subject  = "Test CDO"
emailObj.TextBody = "Test CDO"

Set emailConfig   = emailObj.Configuration

emailConfig.Fields("http://schemas.microsoft.com/cdo/configuration/smtpserver") = "mail.live.com"
emailConfig.Fields("----/smtpserverport")   = 465
emailConfig.Fields("----/sendusing")        = 2  
emailConfig.Fields("----/smtpauthenticate") = 1  
emailConfig.Fields("----/smtpusessl")       = true 
emailConfig.Fields("----/sendusername")     = "[email protected]"
emailConfig.Fields("----/sendpassword")     = "*****"

emailConfig.Fields.Update

emailObj.Send

If Err.Number = 0 Then 
  MsgBox "Done"
End If

If Err.Number <> 0 Then 
  MsgBox "Can't Proceed"
End If

It's a code to send email via live.com, but I am getting "The transport failed to connect to the server" error. Can anyone help me out in resolving this error?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 2652

Answers (1)

Ansgar Wiechers
Ansgar Wiechers

Reputation: 200483

mail.live.com is just a webserver(farm):

xxx@iridium:~ $ nmap mail.live.com

Starting Nmap 6.47 ( http://nmap.org ) at 2016-03-31 08:53 CEST
Nmap scan report for mail.live.com (157.56.198.204)
Host is up (0.029s latency).
Other addresses for mail.live.com (not scanned): 157.55.230.252
rDNS record for 157.56.198.204: origin.du130w.dub130.mail.live.com
Not shown: 965 closed ports, 33 filtered ports
PORT    STATE SERVICE
80/tcp  open  http
443/tcp open  https

Nmap done: 1 IP address (1 host up) scanned in 8.32 seconds

For mail submission to outlook.com use smtp-mail.outlook.com and port 25 or 587 (see here).

Not sure if you can use a Gmail address to authenticate to Microsoft's mail service, though.

Upvotes: 1

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