Error Help!

Hi All,

I have an indicator that had the Alert and Email function REM'd out. Thank you to Oksana17 for pointing out the code was there.

I took the REM off the code, saved it and recomplied it. Looking in the Journal I get the following error:


Mail: not enough space for 'Trade Alert!!'

Here is the Alert & Email code from the Indicator. Could someone please look at it and advise ?

Thanks... Mike G

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/*--------------*/
/* ALERT CODE */
/*--------------*/
if ((Alert_SMA_Filtered == false ||
(Alert_SMA_Filtered == true && OzFX_Regular[0] == Filter_SMA[0]))
&&
(Alert_RSI_Filtered == false ||
(Alert_RSI_Filtered == true && MathCeil(OzFX_AES[0]) == Filter_SMA[0])))
{
switch (Alert_Signal)
{
case 0:
if (OzFX_Regular[0] != 0 && bAlertSounded == false)
{
if (Popup_Alerts_On == true)
MessageBox("alert", "Trade Alert!!", MB_OK);
if (Audio_Alerts_On == true)
PlaySound("Alert.wav");
if (EMail_Alerts_On == true)
SendMail("Trade Alert!!", "alert");
bAlertSounded = true;
}
else bAlertSounded = false;
break;
case 1:
if (OzFX_Regular[0] != 0 && bAlertSounded == false)
{
if (Popup_Alerts_On == true)
MessageBox("alert", "Trade Alert!!", MB_OK);
if (Audio_Alerts_On == true)
PlaySound("Alert.wav");
if (EMail_Alerts_On == true)
SendMail("Trade Alert!!", "alert");
bAlertSounded = true;
}
else bAlertSounded = false;
break;
}
}
return(0);
}

if this is an indicator you cannot make Messagebox function calls. Delete that portion of the code and see if you get the same error.

Thanks Magnum,

Made that change and still get the same error:


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/*--------------*/
/* ALERT CODE */
/*--------------*/
if ((Alert_SMA_Filtered == false ||
(Alert_SMA_Filtered == true && OzFX_Regular[0] == Filter_SMA[0]))
&&
(Alert_RSI_Filtered == false ||
(Alert_RSI_Filtered == true && MathCeil(OzFX_AES[0]) == Filter_SMA[0])))
{
switch (Alert_Signal)
{
case 0:
if (OzFX_Regular[0] != 0 && bAlertSounded == false)
{
/*if (Popup_Alerts_On == true)
MessageBox("alert", "Trade Alert!!", MB_OK);*/
if (Audio_Alerts_On == true)
PlaySound("Alert.wav");
if (EMail_Alerts_On == true)
SendMail("Trade Alert!!", "alert");
bAlertSounded = true;
}
else bAlertSounded = false;
break;
case 1:
if (OzFX_Regular[0] != 0 && bAlertSounded == false)
{
/* if (Popup_Alerts_On == true)
MessageBox("alert", "Trade Alert!!", MB_OK);*/
if (Audio_Alerts_On == true)
PlaySound("Alert.wav");
if (EMail_Alerts_On == true)
SendMail("Trade Alert!!", "alert");
bAlertSounded = true;
}
else bAlertSounded = false;
break;
}
}
return(0);
}

The error seems to refer to the mail function. Are you sure of your SMTP server credentials and the status of the account?

Regarding the MessageBox function, the inclusion of WinUser32 leads me to believe that the author's intent was to use the the MessageBoxA function from user32.dll. That function has a different signature than the built-in function but perhaps the author was confused.

The Alert function would probably be a better choice than either Message Box function since a time stamped log is kept of those. You might want to encode a bit of identifying information into the message so that it is obvious why the alert was sent.

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Hey Royce...Thanks for your thoughts. No my SMTP info is correct because another indicator I have works fine. Since I do not program MT4 or C++ I am at a total loss on what needs to be changed in the code to get the functionality working.

Mike G

I guess my next suggestion would be to make sure that the SendMail function is the real culprit. Try this indicator. It does nothing except send a similar mail out when it is first loaded into a chart or is otherwise re-initialized.

If this indicator generates the same error as the problem indicator, then I would try to see if the message itself is the problem. For example, perhaps the double exclamation marks in the subject argument are setting off a spam defense in your SMTP server. Change the subject and message arguments to see.

If the email instead fires off OK, then we'll need to look elsewhere in the problem indicator for the issue.

I don't get the error when I compile it with the alert code uncommented. Here is the file for you, try it to see if you still get the same error.

Hey Royce and Magnum,

Thanks for holding my hand on this one. Very Odd!!! The SMTP mail server info is identical to that in my ODL platform, I downloaded and installed Alpari today.

On the Alpari platform it fails...on ODL, no problem.

SOOOOO... I changed to another domain name of a website I have and different SMTP info and now they both work fine..... very odd.

Thanks again for your help.

Mike G