On Mon, Jan 22, 2024 at 03:24:44PM -0500, Walter Dnes wrote > On Tue, Jan 09, 2024 at 02:01:34PM -0500, Walter Dnes wrote > > I'll soon be switching over from cable to fibre. It's the same ISP, > > but I'll be needing to authenticate outbound email on port 587 (long > > story). > > Let's start this over again, because I was barking up the wrong > tree. Rather than ASS-uming stuff, I finally asked in my ISP's support > forum and they said... > > > Regarding the SMTP server, the port 587 works on any type of > > technology we are offering. It has to be set with SSL, without > > any authentication.
Well, that was easy. *IN MY PARTICULAR CASE* I added 3 lines to muttrc... set ssl_starttls=no set ssl_force_tls=no set smtp_url=smtp://smtp.ebox.ca:587 ...and it works, at least on cable. -- Roses are red Roses are blue Depending on their velocity Relative to you
