[GTALUG] help with Rogers SMTP

[William Park]

Your screenshot looks OK.  Rogers is using Yahoo.  Yahoo changed the way 
you authenticate to POP3/SMTP servers.  They won't accept your web login 
password anymore.  You have to log into their website, generate "app" 
password, and copy that into Thunderbird.

That's what I remember.  But, looking around Thunderbird now, I can't 
find where you'd enter that password.  I guess, when you create the 
server account.

--William

On 12/2/21 12:03 PM, Dave Collier-Brown via talk wrote:
> 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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