What sort of alerts can an E A generate?
Cam it be programmed to send an email to a specific email address when an open position is closed?
Yes, but you need a specific email program for it to use.
Try out the MQL4 forum…
I have been climbing the walls trying to get MT4 to send emails. It simply will not do so, as nearly every provider on earth now requires SSL, which MT4 cannot do.
I’d really, really love a solution to this problem.
can’t you setup a mail server on your own pc and use that?
I have no idea how to do that.
Don’t know how good you are with computers but try this on Windows:
hMailServer - Free email server for Microsoft Windows
…or if you have another OS then look for opensource mail servers on google.
You install that on your own PC and run it, then tell MQL4 to mail via that server (localhost) but you then have to leave your computer on for it to work.
There must be some servers out there that don’t use SSL anymore? I guess not due to spam issues
I set up an account with GMX and have it send me alerts, although I don’t use it that much anymore.