Samsung WB150F won't email photos (network or camera issue?)....

[redgtxdi]

So I'm not sure exactly where this belongs but I *suspect* it's network related. Bought the old man a Samsung WB150F cuz he's not good w/ mem cards & navigating windows, etc. so i told him he could just email himself, me, whoever, photos when he finds one he likes.

He hasn't used it in a while but so since I'm visiting, I selected pics, & sent them via email. It recognized network properly, even showed that it sent them, but none of my e-mails are receiving the pics. I can't figure out why.

All e-mail addresses are correct. (Camera only wants a 'sent from' address, no pertinent source info)

Network is sought & it finds it & proceeds to show it send (I can even watch the progress) but no-joy.

Any suggestions?

 

[imagoon]

Likely being blocked by spam filters. Most home internet ranges are auto black listed.

Have you verified that the account that is being sent from is a valid email account and the ISP allows access from where you are at?

 

[redgtxdi]

Likely being blocked by spam filters. Most home internet ranges are auto black listed.

Have you verified that the account that is being sent from is a valid email account and the ISP allows access from where you are at?

Thanks for the reply! I know this is not a typical network question so I appreciate any help.

Yes, I'm at the old man's house & it's his network (charter), his email listed as the "sent" (an old aol.com email.....yes, facepalm) and a couple of buffalo routers that I tomato'd to double his range.

I've definitely done it before with the camera (about a year old now) but just not working now.

 

[imagoon]

Is a mail client on a computer with the same settings able to send a message? Outlook / Thunderbird etc

 

[redgtxdi]

Well, I'm using my iPad2 to try & receive. But I've sent from the camera to my gmail account, hotmail account and their own aol account. (grouped and separately).

I have the old man do aol's cloud mail only cuz I don't want him messing with a local client & losing track of where stuff is. He knows only aol so I have to keep it simple for him.

I just sent an e-mail from my ipad & replied via his laptop & it works but just generic text. I think the thing that throws me most is that the camera identifies & hops onto the network as well as sends & confirms send of the pics, yet they don't show up anywhere.

 

[imagoon]

Well, I'm using my iPad2 to try & receive. But I've sent from the camera to my gmail account, hotmail account and their own aol account. (grouped and separately).

I have the old man do aol's cloud mail only cuz I don't want him messing with a local client & losing track of where stuff is. He knows only aol so I have to keep it simple for him.

I just sent an e-mail from my ipad & replied via his laptop & it works but just generic text. I think the thing that throws me most is that the camera identifies & hops onto the network as well as sends & confirms send of the pics, yet they don't show up anywhere.

This isn't atypical of mail that is being killed by a spam filter. It may look like it sent but be deleted later. Also the camera may not really have a fully built mail client inside it and it may not be displaying an error message.

Does the camera have the aol.com address and password in it to allow sending? What is the size limit on the email account? If you sent a 100meg image and AOL is limited to 5mb it would fail to send. Does the camera support TLS? Some of the mail servers are requiring that now.

 

[redgtxdi]

Well, I went ahead & did a sender setup from scratch again to see how the camera handles the "send" and it appears it doesn't ask for a password for the e-mail account.

Again, I know it used to work but perhaps aol set up some security that won't allow cameras like this to send blindly anymore? (even though I have a feeling the camera acts solely and is just an IP address with a simple client onboard which means perhaps it's all the inbound clients doing the blocking....I'm clueless)

Nevertheless, I just tried again from scratch & it no workee so I have no clue. I just pulled the sd card, loaded everything on all computers in the home & told my dad I'll do the same next Thanksgiving.

I gotta head back home now so maybe I'll revisit next year. (He'll probably have broken it by then anyway...har har)

Thanks again for the help. I really appreciate it!!

 

[imagoon]

Yeah, unauthenticated sending is becoming a thing of the past and is typically blocked by most spam systems now. IE the camera might claim to be someuser@aol.com but the sending IP isn't on aol.com 's authorized sending list so it gets spam canned by many other mail servers.