Bob Bernstein writes: > At some point in this process try using your POP credentials (username > martin, password martin's pop password) when trying to send. Y'know, when > suddenlink told you that 'martin' had been already taken as a username for > smtp, of course it had, by YOU, for your POP account. > > > Just a thought. I'm just sayin'.
Good idea, but I can answer the easiest question first. The name that originally setup this account is based on my wife's user ID. I first tried mar...@suddenlink.net and the system let me type it in then ate it a few seconds later and popped up a message saying that this user ID is unavailable. It did that same thing to attempts to register a couple of other UID's before liking martin.m. Those credentials work without fail when retrieving messages via fetchmail and one must use the same credentials with the smtp host as one does to retrieve mail. Just the same, you caught me on one thing. the full user name is the full email address and I was just using martin.m. Fixing it changed nothing. The following is a partial quote from Suddenlink's instructions to pop and smtp users. This is the part that applies to what doesn't yet work: ________________________________________________________________________ SMTP (outbound) Outgoing Mail Server: smtp.suddenlink.net Outgoing mail port: 25 or 587 Outgoing mail port (SSL): 465 Note:Username: your full email address, including the @domain.net at the end (i.e. @suddenlink.net) Password: The password set to your particular email address Outgoing server verification must be enabled and on. If your email client has the option or checkbox that says "My outgoing server requires authentication" this will need to be checked along with "use same settings as my incoming mail server." If the email client asks for Clear Text Authentication, check "yes". ________________________________________________________________________ It looks like you log in in the clear and then encryption is used to send the mail. If you start using port 465 or anything but 25 or 587, it just hangs until the next big bang or I get bored waiting. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20150718111003.d938922...@server1.shellworld.net