I just spent hours getting my shiny new Elk to send a stinkin' email alert so here's the short story for you new guys that may have the same trouble.
After some struggling I learned that the XEP was fine with auto DHCP IP assignment and fine with auto DNS on my 2wire router and I was able to communicate with the XEP through ElkRP but unable to send a test email. The problem turned out to be with the email server and was twofold.
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The m1xep does not support SSL/TLS secure mail servers which includes most of the email servers in the USA now. To resolve this I found that GMX.com and smtp2go.com still run non SSL smtp servers and they are free. Sign up for the free service and you are half the way there.
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Elk also was not resolving the smtp server names using static or automatic DNS setup. I still don't know why but I finally got it to work by converting the url alias into the numeric IP address 74.208.5.30.
I hope that this can save some of you some time and if you get stuck I'd be glad to share what I;ve learned.
Mike.
After some struggling I learned that the XEP was fine with auto DHCP IP assignment and fine with auto DNS on my 2wire router and I was able to communicate with the XEP through ElkRP but unable to send a test email. The problem turned out to be with the email server and was twofold.
1
The m1xep does not support SSL/TLS secure mail servers which includes most of the email servers in the USA now. To resolve this I found that GMX.com and smtp2go.com still run non SSL smtp servers and they are free. Sign up for the free service and you are half the way there.
2
Elk also was not resolving the smtp server names using static or automatic DNS setup. I still don't know why but I finally got it to work by converting the url alias into the numeric IP address 74.208.5.30.
I hope that this can save some of you some time and if you get stuck I'd be glad to share what I;ve learned.
Mike.