[GTALUG] help with Rogerrs SMTP

[William Park]

I think Rogers is using Yahoo or Hotmail (Microsoft) behind the scene. 
My sendmail/fetchmail/procmail used to work for Yahoo, until about a 
year ago.  I gave up.

I'm now using Thunderbird.  You can tell by the way paragraph is mangled 
in my post. :-(

--William

On 12/1/21 8:24 PM, Ariel Burton via talk wrote:
> Hi everyone,
> 
> I'm trying to get outgoing SMTP email to work with Rogers,
> and would appreciate any help.
> 
> I am not looking for a full solution; all I need is for outgoing
> email to work from the command line in my user account.  I don't
> need a system-wide solution, or a solution that works with GUI email
> readers.  See below for a sample use-case.
> 
> I used to have a solution that had lines like this in my $HOME/.mailrc:
> 
> BEGINS
> 
> set smtp=smtp.nl.rogers.com:587
> set smtp-auth-user=MY-ROGERS-EMAIL-ADDRESS
> set smtp-auth-password=ROGERS-DEVICE-SPECIFIC-PASSWORD
> 
> set replyto="Ariel Burton <MY-OTHER-EMAIL-ADDRESS>"
> 
> set smtp-use-starttls
> set ssl-verify=ignore
> 
> ENDS
> 
> Something like this worked for many years, but stopped working
> a while  ago.
> Earlier versions differed slightly, e.g., using "from" or "sender"
> in place of "replyto", or different port numbers.
> 
> This is a transcript of how it fails:
> 
> BEGINS
> 
> /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.
> 
> ENDS
> 
> Can anyone see what am I doing wrong, and how to fix it?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Ariel
> ==
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