It depends which Ghost version you have.

The problem arises because most ISP's require the option "server requires authentication" option for sending emails.  If you normally use Outlook Express, check in your SMTP sending email setups, and see if that is the case.  It probably is.

That option for authenticaion isn't in Ghost 9, I can't remember if Ghost 10 has SMTP authentication or not; Ghost 12 has that as an option.

Ghost 10 has an authenticate section.  The choices are Anonymous, Basic and NTLM.
Above that, it asks for SMTP.  I have always put the SMTP of the destination of the email (Comcast) and it usually works.  Should I be putting the Source of the email (Yahoo).
This failure occurs on a machine that uses Yahoo.  The notification email is to be sent to a Comcast email address.
Like I said, I do this on many machines, and it usually works.  In fact, I received nightly notifications from about 10 diverse machines.

cardinal23 wrote on Sep 17^th, 2007 at 11:47pm:


you put in the SOURCE of the email--that is who is trying to authenticate or send the email.  It doesn't matther who it is being sent TO, but the email and password of who is sending the email.

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That's entirely possible.  It depends upon how (and if) the ISP from that pc handles authentication for outgoing mail.  I've seen some ISP's that allow outgoing emails for a period of time once authenticated.  It's like you are still connected and validated.  So for example, if you use Outlook Express to send an email successfully, you could then use Ghost 10 for several minutes to send an email where Ghost would be "tagging along" the authentication that came just a couple minutes ago.  Five minutes later, it wasn't possible.  Go to the website of your ISP and see what the OE settings are supposed to be.

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Those machines are still using the ISP, so if you want to send emails from them (from OE or Outlook or Ghost), go to the website of the ISP and see what the email settings are supposed to be.

Some ISP's want the email ID in the username field, some the full email address, etc.  (joe vs. joe@comcast.com).

Almost all ISP's require the user to logon or be authenticated to send emails sent from a pc.  Any that don't are called "open relays" and are fodder for spam bots.  That hole was closed several years ago to try and thwart spam.

When you send emails through IE, you are doing the equivalent thing by "authenticating" by logging on with your Yahoo id and password.

G4M (and me too):
I printed out this thread and need to reveiew it.
I get notifications from like 10 PCs every night - but there's always a few that torch me.
I have always used Basic, never SMTP.  And, as you know, I've used the Source smtp, instead of the Destination SMTP.
One of the (easy) things I will try is to express the login credentials differently:  For example, instead of saying just "mylogin", I will say "mylogin@domain.com".  That's pretty easy.  After that I'll try the more involved suggestions you offer.
Radified (and people like G4M) are wonderful!!  There IS still good in the world.  Don't let anybody tell you different!

I have about 14 sites that send Ghost notifications.  Of those 14, 10 work fine.
My confidence is raised.  I'll fix these.  df

Here's the logical way to think about it:

Anytime you send email from a computer, using Outlook or Outlook Express etc., you need to authenticate to the email server so that it knows who is sending the email through their sever.  Otherwise the world would be filled with tons more spam being mischievously sent through various isp's.  That why the authentication occurs.

If you have a online Yahoo or hotmail account, then you authenticate yourself when you logon to your online account.  When you send email via the web this way, Yahoo uses its server, and since you logged on, you are authenticated.

You should ask the Hotmail person WHO his computer is connected to?  What ISP is he using to get Internet access?  Even if he never uses his ISP for email, you need to know that.  I suspect he has a Comcast account. 

When you tell Ghost to send an email, Ghost uses smtp protcol, which is like Outlook or Outlook Express.  So you need a valid ISP-account.  The fact that YOUR settings worked leads me to belive that your friend also has Comcast, or that Comcast allows emails from any domain, once authenticated.

Some ISP's will not allow you to send emails using their email server UNLESS you are connected to a computer on their domain.  So you can't go to a friends house who has Cox or some other ISP and send email to some non-Cox email server.

Does this make sense?  It's all part of the blocking of "open-relay" ISPs which were a big spam problem several years ago.