SharePoint

How to send SMTP email using Telnet

Mark H. Wagner — Thu, 06 Jul 2006 11:08:00 GMT

How to send SMTP email using Telnet

This is an old method of sending email using Telnet. I've posted it here mostly for a remider to me on exactly how to do this, but thought I would share it with others who may not know of this. This can be useful when testing if a server can successfully send email. For example, I use this to confirm if a SharePoint server can successfully send emails for alerts and notifications.

The items in bold are what you should type.

Start a Telnet session from a command line by entering:
Telnet your.mailserver.com 25

220 a.mail.server.com Microsoft ESMTP MAIL Service, Version: 6.0.3790.2499 ready at Thu, 29 Jun 2006 15:59:02 -0600
helo

250 a.mail.server.com Hello [192.168.125.237]
mail from: fromemail@server.com

250 2.1.0 email@server.com...Sender OK
rcpt to: joe@server.com

250 2.1.5 joe@server.com
data

354 Start mail input; end with .
This is a test.
. (enter a dot/period to end the data)

250 2.6.0 Queued mail for delivery

quit
Connection to host lost.

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Web Part Package Installer

Mark H. Wagner — Mon, 20 Jun 2005 17:48:00 GMT

Web Part Package Installer for Windows SharePoint Services 2003

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For those of us who are familiar with installing and removing SharePoint web parts, it’s a pretty easy process. However, for those individuals who spend more time using SharePoint than installing and configuring it; locating and using the STSADM command can be a bit tedious. To help simplify the installation of web parts packages, I have created a simple Web Part Package Installer program.

The purpose of this program is to make the installation of web part packages much easier for less-technical people. Web Part Packages are stored in files having a .CAB file extension. The nice thing about a web part package is that a package can define some initial properties and configuration settings for the web part being installed. This is where my Web Part Package Installer program may be useful.

The installer form is very simple.

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Google Web Part for SharePoint

Mark H. Wagner — Wed, 08 Jun 2005 16:21:00 GMT

Google Search Web Part

Mark Wagner
http://blogs.crsw.com/mark
June 10, 2005

Article: http://blogs.crsw.com/mark/articles/1009.aspx

I created a custom Google web part a few weeks ago for my demo SharePoint site. You can see what it looks like on my testing SharePoint home page http://sharepoint.crsw.com. The Google web part submits a search request by navigating the user directly to the Google search web page and performs a Google search using the Google search engine. I have since received a number of emails requesting to get this web part for use on their SharePoint sites, so I decided to make it available for others.

First and foremost, the Google name and search service are the property of Google. I have no affiliation with the Google name and its services.

Google is a must-have resource for my daily work. If I need to find something, I Google it, and nothing else comes close when searching on the Internet. With this dependency, I had to have it on my new SharePoint demo site. My SharePoint demo site is more of a test-harness at this point since it is hosted on a shared/public server, so don’t be too disappointed when you see it.

For those of you not familiar with Google, welcome to the Internet. Google is the single best Internet search service available on the Internet, for the Internet. If you need to find something on the Internet, Google will find it for you. This process of searching is commonly referred to Googling. If you Google something, your are using Google to search the Internet for it. For the rest of you, Google is probably how you found this article.

It is important to remember that this Google Search web part is not intended to replace the SharePoint search feature. In order for Google to find any results, Google must have already searched and indexed your site. Also remember that Google will not be able to crawl and index pages on your SharePoint site that are not accessible to the public. This is where the SharePoint search has the upper hand. Again, this web part is not intended to replace the SharePoint search feature, but to conveniently access the much used Google search from your SharePoint page.

Configuring the Google Search Web Part

Here is a picture of the web part configurations.

Google Image URL

Once you have installed the web part, in the configuration options of the web part is a Google Image URL property which defaults to an image on Google’s web site. You should use the default url for the Google image. I have made this property available just in case Google renames or moves their image.

This Google Search Web Part can be configured in three distinct ways.

Standard Google Search

Local Site Search

Custom Site Search

Complete article here...