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lars

Does the C9 email form work? I don't seem to get any mail when I test sending email to myself.

(The address is correct and it works from Outlook).

Maurits
AKA Matthew van Eerde

I just sent myself email through the C9 email form, and I successfully received it. Maybe you have an SPF record or other spam countermeasures on your domain? The C9 email system is not SPF-compliant or Sender ID-compliant or DomainKeys compliant.

Adding a "Sender: channel9@msdn.com" header would fix this.

billh
call -141

It isn't working for me either. I get the "An unknown error has ..." message.

Checked the e-mail inbox.

Nothing there.

The spam still gets through though.

lars

Maurits wrote:
Maybe you have an SPF record or other spam countermeasures on your domain? The C9 email system is not SPF-compliant or Sender ID-compliant or DomainKeys compliant.

Nope. It's catch-all and spam friendly. Smiley

Charles
Welcome Change

I'll look into this. [

Steve411

Three months later.

Just joking.
Steve.

Charles
Welcome Change

I can't repro this behavior using any of my accounts (my real one and a test account).

Remember that you need to be logged in to send mail or an exception will be thrown and you'll see the generic exception message UI.

As for Lars, can you provide more details? I don't see an exception in the error database (and if there is an exception generated that is not surfaced in UI we also log it so we can debug).

C

Steve411

Charles -
Can we at least have more descriptive errors? This way the community could assist the team in fixing the bugs, or buggers as i like to call them.

No, we don't need the stacktrace.
Steve.

Charles
Welcome Change

Well, in the case of not being logged in and trying to send somebody an email, sure, we could be more descriptive... In the cases where an email fails due to some random exception, Im'm not sure how the community could help without showing the exception message text in the UI. Is that really a good idea?

C

Maurits
AKA Matthew van Eerde

Yes

Steve411

Yes, Charles.

W3bbo
The Master of Baiters

Maurits wrote:
Yes

After all... we're not "Home users" who Microsoft thinks needs information to be dumbed-down to Wink

I've said it before, one of my perceptions of Microsoft is how they dumb-down computing or give misleading information just to "make things simpler".

For instance, In Windows 9x, there was only one "General Protection Fault", despite there being 4 distinct causes for it. Or IE7 showing only one button for "RSS" even if the site is using Atom (and without providing a way to choose alternate feeds).

lars

Charles wrote:
As for Lars, can you provide more details? I don't see an exception in the error database

My test emails have arrived now. But for some reason they were not delivered to the address currently specified in my profile, but to the one I used when signing up. It must have been months since I changed that. Now that's wierd!

ScanIAm
On a scale of 1 to 10, people are stupid.

Charles wrote:
Well, in the case of not being logged in and trying to send somebody an email, sure, we could be more descriptive... In the cases where an email fails due to some random exception, Im'm not sure how the community could help without showing the exception message text in the UI. Is that really a good idea?

C

Er, I guess I get to be the dissenting vote on this. If you want, dump the trace somewhere and give us an error code that refers to it. I doubt that you want deeply descriptive stack traces and such showing up...it's a security hole.