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Setting up your MT4 email

  • #1
  • First Post: Aug 22, 2009 4:53pm Aug 22, 2009 4:53pm
I've spent several hours trying to set up the email function on my MT4 platform. I finally found the way to make it work..Enjoy!

Sign up for a free email account from gmx, then use these settings in the tools/options/email tab on the MT4 platform:

SMTP Server: mail.gmx.com:587
SMTP Login : [email protected]
SMTP Passsword: your email password
From: [email protected]
To: email address you want the message to go to
  • #2
  • Aug 22, 2009 11:52pm Aug 22, 2009 11:52pm
Great tip! - I setup an account ASAP!
  • #3
  • Aug 23, 2009 3:56am Aug 23, 2009 3:56am
Trying from last 10minutes to signup

Its not working!
Not even signing up.
password rules are very weird and too much...still after all that.
Shows this "INVISIBLE" ERROR
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  • #4
  • Edited 5:35am Aug 23, 2009 5:13am | Edited 5:35am
Thanx for the info, i will try GMX also.
Btw does GMX will send the email fast?
because i'm sure we want the email to be delivered fast.

Edit: Errr signing up a new email account in GMX is annoyingme
it keeps giving me this message:
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* Entered password is not secure enough.
* Entered passwords do not match.
Eventhough i already follow the suggested rules for password T_T
i just can't figured out what kind of password it want me to use.
  • #5
  • Aug 23, 2009 6:10am Aug 23, 2009 6:10am
  •  Jey
  • | Joined Jun 2009 | Status: Market Slave-Overworked/Underpipped | 283 Posts
Will using gmail work?
I have seen the enemy, and it is me.
  • #6
  • Aug 23, 2009 6:17am Aug 23, 2009 6:17am
Quoting AdamN
Edit: Errr signing up a new email account in GMX is annoyingme
it keeps giving me this message:

Eventhough i already follow the suggested rules for password T_T
i just can't figured out what kind of password it want me to use.
LOL i have crossed that hurdle ...
use everything in the password ...everything below is necessary
- Minimum 8 characters
- Small letters
- Big letters
- numerical Digits
- Symbols

was feeling like some new recruit is getting a job at FBI datacenter

and after that you will Come to Next HURDLE ...The "INVISIBLE" Error...see my previous post ! lmao
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  • #7
  • Aug 23, 2009 6:26am Aug 23, 2009 6:26am
Quoting forexsaint
LOL i have crossed that hurdle ...
use everything in the password ...everything below is necessary
- Minimum 8 characters
- Small letters
- Big letters
- numerical Digits
- Symbols

was feeling like some new recruit is getting a job at FBI datacenter

and after that you will Come to Next HURDLE ...The "INVISIBLE" Error...see my previous post ! lmao
LOL just thinking of what kind of trouble you had just to signup a free email, makes me feel lazy to do the same,
finding another SMTP enabled free email provider might be faster than creating an email account in GMX
  • #8
  • Aug 23, 2009 11:13am Aug 23, 2009 11:13am
Quoting Jey
Will using gmail work?
Hey Jey- Gmail will not work. I spent hours trying to get gmail to work.
  • #9
  • Aug 23, 2009 11:15am Aug 23, 2009 11:15am
Quoting forexsaint
LOL i have crossed that hurdle ...
use everything in the password ...everything below is necessary
- Minimum 8 characters
- Small letters
- Big letters
- numerical Digits
- Symbols

was feeling like some new recruit is getting a job at FBI datacenter

and after that you will Come to Next HURDLE ...The "INVISIBLE" Error...see my previous post ! lmao
FS, I'm glad you got it working finally. My password is only 8 characters long(6 letters and 2 numbers at the end-all lower case..) As for that "invisible" error, I never came across that. If you figure out how to fix it, please write a post about it in case someone else on here has the same trouble!
  • #10
  • Aug 23, 2009 11:24am Aug 23, 2009 11:24am
Quoting AdamN
Thanx for the info, i will try GMX also.
Btw does GMX will send the email fast?
because i'm sure we want the email to be delivered fast.

Edit: Errr signing up a new email account in GMX is annoyingme
it keeps giving me this message:

Eventhough i already follow the suggested rules for password T_T
i just can't figured out what kind of password it want me to use.
Hey Adam- It shouldn't be that difficult to setup your email account with gmx. I spent only a couple minutes setting my email address up. Make sure the password is at least 8 characters long with a combination of letters and numbers. My password is 8 characters longs(6 letters and 2 numbers on the end-all lowercase)

Quoting AdamN
LOL just thinking of what kind of trouble you had just to signup a free email, makes me feel lazy to do the same,
finding another SMTP enabled free email provider might be faster than creating an email account in GMX
If you find a different email provider that works better, please let us know!
  • #11
  • Aug 23, 2009 12:43pm Aug 23, 2009 12:43pm
Quoting leeofx
FS, I'm glad you got it working finally. My password is only 8 characters long(6 letters and 2 numbers at the end-all lower case..) As for that "invisible" error, I never came across that. If you figure out how to fix it, please write a post about it in case someone else on here has the same trouble!
What is working? i left tryin that... there is too much work than to waste time searching for that INVISIBLE error...which even its not showing.. morons dont even have proper signup page...what service they will provide?

i really dont know how u got it with just letters and numbers as password! :o Amazing piece of junk code, it seems, in signup page!

I will let you know all about gmail! Even if it can be done..it will be 500emails/day IMO! enough though!
lets c!
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  • #12
  • Aug 25, 2009 11:28am Aug 25, 2009 11:28am
Quoting forexsaint
I will let you know all about gmail! Even if it can be done..it will be 500emails/day IMO! enough though!
Not done! Gmail's Smtp server uses SSL authentication and mt4 cant use SSL
So Gmail will not work with Email thingy !
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  • #13
  • Aug 25, 2009 4:44pm Aug 25, 2009 4:44pm
you could also use the python bindings (see the other thread here) and use python to send mails (or any other type of messages over any other type of transport medium). This way you could completely and elegantly circumvent all metatrader limitations.
  • #14
  • Aug 26, 2009 3:17am Aug 26, 2009 3:17am
  •  Jey
  • | Joined Jun 2009 | Status: Market Slave-Overworked/Underpipped | 283 Posts
What in the world is this python thingy? Sounds very slithery... is it a new email by any chance?
I have seen the enemy, and it is me.
  • #15
  • Aug 26, 2009 3:26am Aug 26, 2009 3:26am
My internet provider, Comcast, has an email that works for me. When I send alerts to my cellphone, I don't bother emailing to my cell.

I just have MT4 email to <my phone number> @ messaging . sprintpcs . com

(I have Sprint cell service) I found that I would need to "check mail" on my phone to see if there was any alerts. That was never going to work.
  • #16
  • Aug 26, 2009 3:28am Aug 26, 2009 3:28am
Python is a programming language (and yes they put a snake on all the books) - FX Saint: I use Chrome and had a problem signing up but I just fired up Firefox and everything worked fine! (we all know that these browers have quirks) - I use Chrome!!! (No roboform though ), Firefox and Safari but REFUSE to use Explorer - I know every page on the web works with it but....
  • #17
  • Aug 26, 2009 4:56am Aug 26, 2009 4:56am
lol fulltime
earlier i tried with firefox and it didnt work...now i tried with opera...it worked!
I feel there is something with password!
this time i only used letters and numbers..and it worked! phew!

Just Successfully Set it up!
Working!
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  • #18
  • Edited 6:10am Aug 26, 2009 5:47am | Edited 6:10am
Quoting forexsaint
lol fulltime
earlier i tried with firefox and it didnt work...now i tried with opera...it worked!
I feel there is something with password!
this time i only used letters and numbers..and it worked! phew!

Just Successfully Set it up!
Working!
So the site has browsers incompatibility (or vise versa )
I'll give it another try.

Edit: It works!!
I use firefox to sign up, at first it said my password didn't match, but on the 2nd try after i waited for the tooltip for recommended password form disappear my registration was successfull

I test it on MT4 and the email arrived in my gmail in less than a minute(probably about half a minute)
  • #19
  • Aug 26, 2009 8:52am Aug 26, 2009 8:52am
Quoting Jey
What in the world is this python thingy? Sounds very slithery... is it a new email by any chance?
Python is one of the most popular and widely used programming language currently in existance (small companies like Google use it to program all their backend services, everything that is complicated and has to be solved in an elegant way is done with Python)

It is also often used to do quick hacks, for example provide the glue to make existing but incompatible systems work together because Python can easily interface with just about anything with just a few lines of code.

For the specific problem of this thread here: If you can use your provider's SMTP server to send mails from Metatrader then everything is fine.

If you insist on using another server (google mail) that only speaks a protocol variant (ssl) that metatrader cannot understand then you need to extend Metatrader with something that let you achieve this. Therefore Python is predestinated because connecting to servers and making it speak all kinds of (even obscure) protocols is one of Python's many strengths that can be (in most cases) achieved with only a few lines of Python.
  • #20
  • Aug 27, 2009 8:05am Aug 27, 2009 8:05am
Setting up the account with GMX without any problem & MT4 is working fine with the email setup.

Does anybody had any email alerts indicator or EA that when my pending order or any instant order open, it will send to email?? Same goes to closed order...

Try & google but can't find any suitable email alerts, anybody here had recommendation??
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