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[glorybound]

I would love to get a text when V-Ray completes a render. Any brainiacs able to pull something like this off?

[Dave_Wortley]

Post-render email notifications not enough for you?

[glorybound]

My understanding is it will not work unless you have your own email server.

[Dave_Wortley]

Just make a hotmail account and then change the from/to and password in this.

Client = dotNetObject "System.Net.Mail.SmtpClient"
 
Client.Host = "smtp.live.com"
 
/*for hotmail use
Client.Host = "smtp.live.com"
*/
 MailMessage = dotNetObject "System.Net.Mail.MailMessage"
MailAdressFrom = dotNetObject "System.Net.Mail.MailAddress" "abc@hotmail.com"
MailMessage.From = MailAdressFrom
MailAdressTo = dotNetObject "System.Net.Mail.MailAddress" "abc@hotmail.com"
MailMessage.To.Add MailAdressTo
MailMessage.Subject = "TestA"
MailMessage.Body = "Test"
 
 
 Client.EnableSsl = true;
 NetworkCred = dotNetObject "System.Net.NetworkCredential"
 NetworkCred.UserName = "abc@hotmail.com"
 NetworkCred.Password = "password"
 Client.UseDefaultCredentials = true
 Client.Credentials = NetworkCred
 Client.Port = 587
 Client.Send MailMessage

[glorybound]

Interesting. Can it be GMAIL? The last thing I need is another email account

[Dave_Wortley]

Client.Host = "smtp.gmail.com"

Done.

[glorybound]

Client.Host = "smtp.gmail.com" Done.

awesome. I'll try it tomorrow.

Bobby Parker www.bobby-parker.com

[particlerealities]

One word of caution to free email account users, and this is probably totally fine with Gmail accounts, but I ran into huge problems with my Yahoo account for using their SMTP server to send emails from my site. I had my website set to send order confirmation emails to/from my Yahoo account (I received order confirmation, my customers received order receipts). Yahoo had recently changed its Terms of Service, cracking down on emails not actually originating from its system to cut down on spam. I ended up getting blacklisted, which essentially took my side business completely offline until I was able to get a new hosting account and email system setup. It took me a couple weeks to escape that mess.

If I were to attempt this, I would create a new email account, and use that address strictly for your render completion notifications. That way, if your email address gets flagged as a spammer, you don't get your actual working email address blacklisted.

[glorybound]

Good to know, thanks!

One word of caution to free email account users, and this is probably totally fine with Gmail accounts, but I ran into huge problems with my Yahoo account for using their SMTP server to send emails from my site. I had my website set to send order confirmation emails to/from my Yahoo account (I received order confirmation, my customers received order receipts). Yahoo had recently changed its Terms of Service, cracking down on emails not actually originating from its system to cut down on spam. I ended up getting blacklisted, which essentially took my side business completely offline until I was able to get a new hosting account and email system setup. It took me a couple weeks to escape that mess.

If I were to attempt this, I would create a new email account, and use that address strictly for your render completion notifications. That way, if your email address gets flagged as a spammer, you don't get your actual working email address blacklisted.