Re: Email log

Cristiano wrote:
Steven L Umbach wrote:
If it is not an email program then it should interface and use the
email program on your computer. [...]

Are you joking?

Cristiano




No, of course he isn't joking. It is you who don't seem to understand the process of sending email. Look, in order to send email from your computer you must have an SMTP server configured. Most people configure this from their email client (Outlook, Outlook Express, Thunderbird, etc.). In addition to regular email clients, certain applications may have the ability to send an email to a designated person (usually the system administrator) if some specific thing occurs in the program. Examples are antivirus programs that can send an email to the system administrator when a virus is found on a server; a UPS monitoring program that can send an email when something goes wrong with the power.

Those programs must get the SMTP information from somewhere. If you didn't configure the SMTP server from within your Mystery Program then the Mystery Program is reading the information from whatever email program configuration you set up. The Mystery Program can't magically create SMTP server settings out of nothing.

I'm not sure what you're really trying to accomplish but if you're uncomfortable about what your Mystery Program is doing, spend some time looking at its configuration settings, log its traffic with your firewall, and/or contact its tech support for help.

This is not a Windows security issue in any case.


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