I’m experiencing a challenge submitting to external publications with Artemis Pro and wondering if anyone has solved this challenge and can help me?  It has nothing to do with the software itself.

Here’s the situation.  I have a list of about 1,000 ezines.  I successfully submitted an article to these ezines with no problems on my part.  Very simple really.

However, the next day the ISP called to inquire about what they referred to as the spam I sent.  This is complete and utter nonsense because I’m sending articles to ezine publishers who have requested them but trying to explain that to the mammal brains at the ISP is a waste of time - commspeed.net is the ISP in case you’re wondering.

Even though my emails are perfectly legitimate, commspeed is not happy because I clogged up their mail servers.  Ultimately they said it would be OK to send 100 emails, wait 20 minutes then send 100 more, etc.  So that is an option but it will now require 3+ hours and 10 Artemis Pro sessions to submit an article…and even more as my external publication list grows.  That’s less than ideal.

So I’ve been trying to find an alternative solution.  I found several external smtp freewares.  The two I downloaded are Free SMTP Sever and ArGoSoft Mail Server.  I’m not a techie so I can’t get either of them to work.  I can’t figure out how to set them up.

Then I discovered you can use google as an external smtp server so I configured Outlook Express with my google account information.  I’m 100% positive I have smtp.google.com set up properly because I’m able to send test messages from Outlook Express that go through to the recipient’s mailbox.

However when I try to use smtp.google.com as the smtp server in Artemis Pro, the messages are not sent.  In the upper left-hand corner I see “Send (-49)”  I have no idea what that means but it must be some kind of error.

Contacting Artemis support apparently is not an option.  I’ve tried that but the support form requires a receipt number or something which I don’t have.  I bought Artemis Pro at discount during a sale promotion and it didn’t come with a receipt number or whatever they’re asking for so I guess that means it comes with no support.  I don’t like that but it doesn’t seem unusual to buy things at sale prices and not get support so I’ll just accept it.

Like I said, I’m not a techie but it may have something to do with the port.  It seems most smtp severs use port 25 but google uses port 465.  Maybe Artemis can’t connect because it’s using the wrong port…or Google is using the wrong port.  I guess it all depends on how you look at it.  In any event Artemis and Google are not “on the same page” so to speak.

Any ideas on how to get Artemis to work with the Google SMTP?

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