Need some help getting started

[PCarlsson]

Hello!

Trying to getting started on Debian Trixie but I must have missed something. I have used Rebol 2 since 1999, but it was not until now I decided to test Rebol 3 when I moved to new hardware.

What I have done is the following:

  wget https://github.com/Oldes/Rebol3/releases/download/3.20.0/rebol3-bulk-linux-x64.gz
  gunzip rebol3-bulk-linux-x64.gz 
  mv rebol3-bulk-linux-x64 rebol3
  chmod +x rebol3
  ./rebol3

It starts up and I wanted to do a simple test of sending an email:

>> send peter@localhost "Testing Rebol 3"

** Script error: send has no value

I thought Rebol 3 (especially Bulk) would include everything I needed. But do I need to do some additional setup/installation?

Any help would be appreciated.

Best regards,
Peter

[Oldes]

You must first import the mail module.. using: import mail

Some modules are specified as delayed, which means that their source is included in the binary, but must be first imported to be used.

foreach [name val] system/modules [
	print ajoin [
		pad name 20
		case [
			module? val [as-green title-of val]
			url? val    [join "(not imported) " as-red val]
			block? val  [join "(not imported) " as-blue select val/1 'title]
		]
	]
]

My goal if to provide some better way to distribute extensions, but it is not yet available:/

[PCarlsson]

Thank you for the answer. And sorry for asking the same question both here and on Gitter red/red.

[Oldes]

If Nenad will not have problem with it, I'm fine:)

Btw... I'm also in the Rebol3 room: https://app.element.io/#/room/#Rebol3:gitter.im and on Zulip: https://rebol.zulipchat.com/

[Oldes]

Also to get the mail working, you would have to setup smtp credentials.
Like:

[scheme: 'smtp host: "smtp.gmail.com" port: 587 user: "example@gmail.com" pass: "some-password"]

Related sources are:
prot-smtp.reb - used to transfer the mail message.
prot-mail.reb - higher level scheme (provides the send function.

[Oldes]

Ok... with Gmail you must get application password -> https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/185833
Now it works for me:

[Oldes]

Here are more details about using the user's persistent data: #87

[Oldes]

One more note... use system/options/log/smtp: 0 to turn off the traces.

[PCarlsson]

Thanks!

In parallel I also setup Docker Mailserver as my mailserver which I think is correctly configured. But to only have one uncertain thing to laborate with I choose Gmail because that I expected to work.

I will try your suggestion but maybe I will also try together with Docker Mailserver.

[PCarlsson]

Hello again!

With the help of your instructions I have it working with Google. I will test it with Docker Mailserver another time.

Thank you for the great support!