Sympa

[loopers]

Once I double click on the icon of SYMPA.exe it prompts me for the password. What is the password that I should type it in?

In the fake MS Id,I type mx7.mail.dxf.com

By the way when I get everything done and press the Send Mail button to send a test mail to my yahoo account, I am not able to see the test fake mail that I sent to myself. How can I resolve this problem?

My Norton Antivirus 200* is also telling me that the email could not be sent for some reason. Anybody can help?

[loopers]

Fever, may I know what type of programming language do you learn to write this program. Do you think you can share with me what type of software you are using to write SYMPA? Thanks.

[fE¨·.·¨Er]

Hi loopers

First of all, thanks for your interest in Sympa, I do not know which version you are currently using, however go ahead and download the last available release (v2.00)
btw, In couple of days I am releasing v2.0**

Sympa is free and will remain free forever, I only write some codes after work, when I do not feel like going out and want to de-stress (as weird as it may sound) but this is the truth..
The password is only meant to make users read the 'read_me.txt' and the 'SYMPA.chm' files.

In order to get rid of the promt that asks for a password, all you have to do is to open & read the file 'read_me.txt' that comes inside the zip file that you downloaded. I am sure you will find the correct password after reading it..
the password is case sensitive when you enter it.

May I also s***est that you read the help file (SYMPA.chm), as it contains very usefull details and examples to better use SYMPA.


As for your your question concerning the programming language,
I am currently using
Borland C++ Builder 6.0 ENTERPRISE and
Borland Delphi 7.0 ENTERPRISE

both are used to give partial codes that are finally compiled with the Delphi 7.0
So, at the end, Delphi 7.0 is integrating as well some C++ codes and assembly codes to give the Sympa.exe that you are using.

in case you still have questions, just ask..

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fE¨·.·¨Er

[loopers]

Let say I am sending an email using the name FakeSender and my email is [email]fakemail@fakemail.com[/email]

When the receiver receive this fake mail, in the 'From : ' columns of the receiver's email, looks like this:-

From : FakeSender<fakemail@fakemail.com>

If I am sending an actual mail, it is suppose to be

From : FakeSender <fakemail@fakemail.com>

You see, there is suppose to be one space in between the sender's name and the email address. I know this is a small bugs but this may give out the hint that this is actually a fake mail.

[loopers]

Thanks. I now got the password. My question is this:-

Let us say I want to send to this specific email account [email]bungalow@tm.net.my[/email] but SYMPA doesn't seems to be sending anything to this account. What shall I do?

[loopers]

Actually, Fever, don't get me wrong with all my questions. I actually like SYMPA very much. The reason why I post so many comments is so that maybe if you want, you can improve SYMPA in your own way. By the way, I am very much looking forward for you next version of SYMPA.

Here is another comment from me. SYMPA is unable to send to multiple user at the same time or multiple user with different mail services. For an example, sending to [email]receiver@hotmail.com[/email] and [email]receiver2@hotmail.com[/email] cannot be done. Sending to receiver with different services cannot be done either, for an example, [email]receiver@hotmail.com[/email] and [email]receiver@**********[/email].

Overall this is really a great software and I like it very much. Hopefully, you can come out with a solution

[loopers]

The next weakness that I found in SYMPA is this. Let us say I wanted to send an email with this in the name column of SYMPA. So here is what I type in the name column of SYMPA ...

Name : abc <abc@hotmail.com>

The reason why I type abc <abc@hotmail.com> in the Name column of SYMPA is bcoz' I wanted abc <abc@hotmail.com> to appear on the receiver's email. But the receiver receive the mail, the email only appear abc.

[fE¨·.·¨Er]

Hi

Please do read the help & faq files. There you can find detailed answers concerning sending email to multiple receivers having different domain names, and many other stuff..

Now for the particular question about your wish to make the receivers email read like this:
(From: abc <abc@hotmail.com>)
instead of reading (From: abc<abc@hotmail.com>) {where no space between name and email address}.
All you have to do is to type :
[email]abc@hotmail.com[/email] in the SYMPA field called ( Mail from: ) and
abc followed by a space (abc ) in the SYMPA field called ( Name: )
this is done automatically in the new version..

btw, there are 2 email format standards, the *st sends the name inside quotes so that the receiver will read this
(From: "abc" <abc@hotmail.com>)
the second does not use quotes, the receiver will read
(From: abc <abc@hotmail.com>)

SYMPA will make whatever you wish. Try and type
"abc" followed by a space ("abc" ) in the field called ( Name: ) and
[email]abc@hotmail.com[/email] in the SYMPA field called ( Mail from: )
the receiver of your email will read
(From: "abc" <abc@hotmail.com>)

take care

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fE¨·.·¨Er

[loopers]

Thank you Fever, you have answer all my questions except that I still do not know how to send to multiple users with the samae or different email services.

[loopers]

Let us say I specifically wanted to send a fake mail to [email]bungalow@tm.net.my[/email] [which a friend of mine and tm.net.my is the isp provider in my country]. How can I do this? Pls help

[loopers]

Do you think you wanted to publish the code of SYMPA? I know programming too. If you allow me too. I may be able to help out with this and why not you make this software an open source?

[loopers]

By the way, how do you put your notes all in the .chm files? What type of software do you use, Fever?

[fE¨·.·¨Er]

Originally posted by loopers
Let us say I specifically wanted to send a fake mail to [email]bungalow@tm.net.my[/email] [which a friend of mine and tm.net.my is the isp provider in my country]. How can I do this? Pls help

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Hi loopers,

sorry for being late, lot of travel these days.

As promissed, I have released today SYMPA version 2.0**.

[url]http://fmk.virtualave.net/Sympa/[/url]

With this new version you DO NOT NEED ANYMORE to type manually any SMTP server, just write down the email address of the destination
This is one of many changes that I am not gonna mention here.
Please read the file 'read_me.txt' provided in the zip file.

btw: there is no help file yet for this new version. It will follow soon.
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fE¨·.·¨Er

[AndyH]

Hi all, just download the very fine sounding SYMPA Delphi App.

However I had a problem on startup with an invalid argument to dateencode. Get all sorts of other date related error messages after that.

I have tried setting regional settings to US MMDDYYYY for what difference this makes but to no avail.

Any Ideas??

[fE¨·.·¨Er]

Originally posted by AndyH
.. I had a problem on startup with an invalid argument to dateencode...

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Hi,

Thank you AndyH for your feedback, in order to reproduce this error I need the following:

What operating system are you using.
Did you enter the correct password.
Did you setup the DNS server.
Can you describe what function of SYMPA you were using when you got the error message.
Can you post exactly the error messsage as it appeared.


thanx again..

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fE¨·.·¨Er