Linux+Seamonkey+Sympatico Problem

[Madison Kelly]

Manimoto Mushi wrote:
> Hi all:
> 
> I just joined this list and need help with a sympatico.ca related 
> problem. Before posting this though I did review the mail-list archive 
> and noticed that what I thought was a new problem is actually a few 
> years old.
> 
> Problem is as follows:
> A friend of mine in Quebec who uses Slackware 11.0 has for many years 
> been a sympatico user with no problems receiving or sending email. A few 
> weeks ago she found that she could not connect to her mail servers. 
> After many calls to tech support we realized that their new email server 
> POP: pophm.sympatico.ca and SMPT: smpthm.sympatico.ca may be blocking 
> access by any email client other than Outlook. We first tried the new 
> conf parameters in Seamonkey on Linux. We could only receive email NOT 
> send. Then we tried the same info as we put in Outlook (which does work) 
> in the Windows XP version of Seamonkey with *exactly* the same results 
> as on the Linux side - can only receive not send mail.
> 
> Is anyone out there successfully using the "hm" servers with Mozilla, 
> Seamonkey, or even Thunderbird in Linux???
> 
> If so *please* share your secrets! How did you do it!. We have even 
> tried to connect to smpt1 but this just fails to connect.
> 
> Someone had suggested putting some kind of sniffer to see what 
> transpires between Outlook and the servers. Has anyone done this? Does 
> anyone know what the problem really is even though it may not be 
> solvable? I mean it really looks like at the server side they are not 
> allowing anything but Outlook to connect which is discrimination...no? 
> Anyone out there a lawyer :-)
> 
> Thanks for any help you can pass one.

I can't say I know what is happening, but try, as a test, setting the 
SMTP server to 'smtp1.sympatico.ca'. I've used that in many places 
(residential and business) in Ontario and New Brunswick without a problem.

HTH!

Madi
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