[GTALUG] help with Rogers SMTP

Dave Collier-Brown dave.collier-brown at indexexchange.com
Thu Dec 2 12:03:04 EST 2021


I lost contact with Dodgers' SMTP from my Thunderbird some time back,
what do your working settings look like? Mine are attached below

--dave


On 12/2/21 00:04, William Park via talk wrote:
> 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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