
The angle brackets will be rejected by most SMTP servers. While the Send via E-mail Client option lets you include the recipient’s name with the email address, only the address should be used with the Send via SMTP option. Specifically, it cannot be in the form that includes the full recipient name by using angle brackets around the email address: Full Name =BAD. Note: A puzzling cause of the 1506 error is related to the format of the email address given to the To: parameter, when you try to include the recipient’s name along with the address. The test may take 60 seconds or longer to process all iterations. When run, it will attempt to send email using every permutation of the settings, and tell you which combinations were successful. You provide the SMTP settings you want to examine for a particular SMTP mail server.
#360WORKS EMAIL PLUGIN DOC UPDATE#
Update Janu10:20 am: (added a config UI - script editing no longer required, as of v5!) We’ve created a file that should help streamline the process of finding SMTP settings that work… (SMTP_SendMail_Interrogation.fp7 download now). (See below for a common but unexpected condition that triggers this error.) Failure here is easy, often resulting in the general (and least informative) error, 1506: “Email(s) could not be sent successfully”.

In this case, it means knowing your SMTP configuration details and correctly formatting email elements.


As a result we now have the ability to send email in the background (or in unattended mode via a server-side script), whereas prior versions required a FileMaker Pro client or third-party plug-in to send email.Īs usual, with power comes responsibility. The Send via SMTP option is also available to the Send Mail script step for FileMaker Pro, and is enabled for FileMaker Server. Send Mail via SMTP is a feature added in v10 of FileMaker Pro.
