[GTALUG] help with Rogerrs SMTP

[Kevin Cozens]

On 2021-12-01 8:24 p.m., Ariel Burton via talk wrote:
> I'm trying to get outgoing SMTP email to work with Rogers,
> and would appreciate any help.
[snip]
> BEGINS
> 
> set smtp=smtp.nl.rogers.com:587
> set smtp-auth-user=MY-ROGERS-EMAIL-ADDRESS
> set smtp-auth-password=ROGERS-DEVICE-SPECIFIC-PASSWORD
[snip]
> Something like this worked for many years, but stopped working
> a while  ago.
[snip]
> /home/me> mail MY-OTHER-EMAIL-ADDRESS
> Subject: test
> test
> .
> EOT
> % smtp-server: 550 Request failed; Mailbox unavailable
> "/home/me/dead.letter" 12/365
> . . . message not sent.

That error makes me think the mail is going to the wrong server. Are you 
sure about the SMTP serverdetails? That doesn't look right to me. When I 
used to send email out via the Rogers servers it was going to 
smtp.broadband.rogers.com on port 465.

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