The NI SMTP library is good at making e-mailing simple. But now and then I will get error 363513 (an error occurred on the network).
There are multiple known causes for this error that one can prevent, but also some unknown. The error does not specify them. I am therefore still struggling to get my e-mailing routines impervious to this error. The library should return more specific errors.
There are multiple other known issues with this library, making it quite unreliable for automation purposes. A shame, as there are few alternatives available.
A few suggested VIs for beefing up this library could be:
- check if server is online
- set popular SMTP header values (I don't know them, like most of us I assume)
- check if e-mail was successfully sent to recipients
- meta data returned: unknown recipient, attachment size exceeds limit of xMB etc
