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On Monday 01 December 2008, John Blinka wrote: |
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> I recently switched to at&t from another isp. At that other isp, |
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> my ssmtp setup worked perfectly. With at&t, a similar ssmtp setup |
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> (modified appropriately to point to at&t's smtp server) does not |
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> work at all. |
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> |
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> AT&T told me to use the server smtp.att.yahoo.com and port |
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> 465. So my ssmtp.conf file looks like: |
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> Debug=YES |
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> root=xxx@×××.net |
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> mailhub=smtp.att.yahoo.com:465 |
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> AuthUser=xxx |
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> AuthPass=yyy |
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> rewriteDomain=att.net |
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> FromLineOverride=YES |
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> UseTLS=YES |
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> |
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> and my revaliases file looks like |
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> root=xxx@×××.net:smtp.att.yahoo.com:465 |
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> |
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> The result of the command mail -v -s test xxx@×××.net is: |
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> |
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> [<-] 220 smtp122.sbc.mail.sp1.yahoo.com ESMTP |
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> [->] EHLO tobey |
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> [<-] 250 8BITMIME |
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> [->] AUTH LOGIN |
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> [<-] 334 VXNlcm5hbWU6 |
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> [->] am9obi5ibGlua2E= |
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> [<-] 334 UGFzc3dvcmQ6 |
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> [<-] 535 authorization failed (#5.7.0) |
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> send-mail: Authorization failed (535 authorization failed (#5.7.0)) |
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> Can't send mail: sendmail process failed with error code 1 |
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> I read somewhere that some people can't get at&t's port 465 to work |
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> with ssmtp and that they have used port 587 successfully. Not so |
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> for me. Using port 587 (replacing 465 by 587 in ssmtp.conf and |
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> revaliases), the result of mail -v -s test xxx@×××.net is: |
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> SSL_connect: Success |
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> send-mail: Cannot open smtp.att.yahoo.com:587 |
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> Can't send mail: sendmail process failed with error code 1 |
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> I have no problem at all sending mail to my att.net account from |
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> various gmail accounts I use, so I know that my password and |
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> username combination functions. |
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> I can telnet to smtp.att.yahoo.com at either port 465 or 587 and get |
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> a response, so nothing is blocking either port. |
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> Any insights or suggestions? |
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> John Blinka |
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Have a go at adding: |
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UseSTARTTLS=YES |
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and remove: |
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UseTLS=YES |
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Regards, |
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Mick |