Hi everyone. Thanks to all who gave advice about setting up transport settings on The Bat for gmail. In the process of reorganizing my e-mail accounts by setting up several gmail accounts, several private domain accounts, and enabling The Bat to access long-standing accounts at Comcast.net that I previously accessed only through webmail, I have discovered that different transport settings are required.
Whereas RCN and Comcast use ports 25 and 110, have "regular" connections for both outgoing and incoming mail, and do not require SMTP authentication for sending mail and only "regular" authentication for receiving mail, in order to send mail through my private domains, I must set the "send mail" settings to "Secure to regular port (STARTTLS)" and must set the authentication settings to "Perform SMTP Authentication (RFC 2554)" and "Use settings of mail retrieval." G-MAIL not only requires the "secure to regular port" setting for sending mail, but also requies the use of different ports for both sending and receiving mail and also requires the "secure to dedicated port (TLS)" setting in order to receive mail. Can anyone explain both the technical and practical (functional) difference between these settings and why these differences exist? Thanks. -- Avi Avram Sacks Using The Bat ver. 1.62r on XP professional ________________________________________________ Current version is 3.5.25 | 'Using TBUDL' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
