I tried the solutions in the "Solved" post on this subject (""). No good. My ISP requires authentication. I cannot find a free, open email server, and don't expect to be able to in this day of aggressive spamming. (FYI: The BlueBottle recommendation is no longer free.) Even if I WERE to find some fly-by-night smtp server foolish enough to leave itself open to spammers, it wouldn't be there the next time my TS needed it to be (or would be blacklisted by every ISP on the planet).
Is anyone updating the firmware for the Terastation Live? How hard would it be to throw a couple of authentication fields into the email notification module?
I will pass up this request to my corporate office,
thank you
Paul, please let management know that the need for authenticated SMTP is growing. Unauthenticated SMTP, if it is not already (except for 1 or 2 exceptions), is going the way of the 8-track tape cartridge and the 5 1/4" floppy. SPAM is too big of an issue for anybody to continue keeping an unauthenticated SMTP server. As soon as an ISP sees spam coming from that server, it will be blacklisted. So... please let us know what is being done about this feature request.
Thanks.
Here Bl**dy Here. Come on Buffalo sort this out. a Fantastic product at a fantastic price, but such outdated thinking when it comes to SMTP mail messages! Even my Router has twigged on to the fact that there are just no "Open SMTP relays" anymore. It was such a simple firmware update for them, so why not you? we are not asking for a major re-write of the firmware, just a couple of authentication settings (U/N and Password!) how difficult can that be?
BUFFALO..........................SORT IT!!!!!
Paul,
Any update from the corporate office on this? It is a huge issue! It used to be fine for Comcast subscribers like me, but recently Comcast moved to require authentication, so it is no longer working. As everyone has already pointed out, no legitimate ISP these days is going to provide an open SMTP server. Thanks, Joe
By the way, this thread is similar to:
http://forums.buffalotech.com/buffalo/board/message?board.id=0101&thread.id=176
Which was marked as "solved", even though it isn't.
This has been an unaddressed problem (with a simple solution) for years. I don't know what the hold-up is.
Stevecol56: I've said it many times around this forum. We don't listen to orders and we don't write the firmware. Tell us to SORT IT again and it will result in a ban this is a warning.
Even though this has been an ongoing issue we have units that have updated SMTP procedures. I have not received any word on whether this will be added in future firmware revisions for older units and when a definitive answer is received we will let you know. Thank you for your patience.
This product is nearing if not already at the end of it's life cycle, I know we ceased production of this model awhile ago. The last firmware update for this drive was posted in January, between that one and the one before it, over a year passed. And all that update addressed were the media server issues, that was a fix we needed to make to make an advertised feature work better with certain devices, specifically the ps3. That being said, the unit was never designed to work with authenticated smtp and therefore we might never add this feature for it. Since it's release we have released several models with this feature. There comes a time in a product's life cycle where new features stop being added, and it looks like we are approaching that point with this model drive. However, these requests have been passed along, which at this point is all that can be done.
Jason,
What new/current TeraStation models support authenticated SMTP? One of the hard drives on my (admittedly old) 1TB TeraStation just died, so maybe it's time for a new TeraStation instead of replacing the failed drive on the old one. Thanks, Joe
Genius! This works for my gmail account, anyone got the settings for a gmx account?
where are all those geeks and freaks for linux-servers?
On the HS-DHTGL/R5 you have the possibility to enter a Subject and five different Mail-Adresses.
As it cannot be too complicated to create a firmware to support smtp auth, it also cannot be too complicated to create a smtp-server relay on an internet Server somewhere. Who of you administrates a root-server for online gaming??
just think about some way to scramble the PW and put it in one of the recipients, send the complete stuff to the relay-server which redirects to the real one and -> done !!
or even don't scramble the PW and make a note somewhere that a dedicated accout has to be created because PW is not protected, or even tell us what PW to use and anyone can decide if they want to use it or not.
Is the information that your Fan just broke so highly sensitive that someone can blackmail you with this data ?? ;-)
Recipient Mail Addresses are checked, so the inserted string has to be an emailaddress.
So I would suggest to add dummy-data (@d.d) to the fields which don't already match an email adress
Mail Notification -> Enable
SMTP Server Address -> relay SMTP-Server
Subject -> *choose any* TeraStation Status Report
Recipient Mail Address 1 -> real SMTP-Server address - Host Name (gmx, gmail, yahoo) + @d.d
Recipient Mail Address 2 -> real SMTP-Server port (zero "0" for default) + @d.d
Recipient Mail Address 3 -> User Name (if it's the email, don't add @d.d)
Recipient Mail Address 4 -> Password (scambled, unscrambled, personally I don't care) + @d.d
Recipient Mail Address 5 -> Destination Email Adress
So for GMX I would set up a unsafe.mail@gmx.net
SMTP Server Address -> relay.server.com
Subject -> TeraStation Status Report
Recipient Mail Address 1 -> mail.gmx.net@d.d
Recipient Mail Address 2 -> 0@d.d
Recipient Mail Address 3 -> 1403289@d.d or unsafe.mail@gmx.net
Recipient Mail Address 4 -> passwd123@d.d
Recipient Mail Address 5 -> private.mail@gmx.net
So go an earn your respect and make thousands of people happy.
and don't forget to post the relay server address ;-)
I do not see these settings under my Maintenance>Mail notification
I only see Mail notification "ENABLE" and SMTP server.... no username or port and whatnot?
My ISP, which I have been using as an unauthenticated SMTP server for this purpose for some years, has just re-engineered all its email as a re-badged GMail system - which requires AUTH for everything. So my LivestationPro emails broke.
However, I have found a temporary hack.
If your destination email address is on many normal hosting systems, such as mine on my email address @klebos.com , then if I set the SMTP server to be the server directly (e.g. smtp.klebos.com) on the machine processing my email, then the message gets delivered.
Now actually, of course, I want the emails in my GMail mailbox... but that's OK, I can either set GMail to extract the messages using POP or I can use a forwarder on my own hosted email account...
Makes sense, once you think how SMTP servers work deep down.
Philip