Re: Finding a replacement for my ISP's smtp server
I think I may have found a fix for this. I found some instructions
which allowed me to check whether or not I had just done a step
correctly before
going on to the next step. At the end a window popped up announcing that
I had completed the setting up correctly, but that it might take up to 2 days
for the setup to take effect. I am waiting, hopefully. Trying
something now may just disrupt the process.
On Sat, Jul 26, 2014 at 7:56 PM, Paul E Condon
<pecondon@mesanetworks.net> wrote:
> I've known for a long while that there was something
> strange about sending mail via my ISP. They have made
> it clear in that they do not require or use TLS. It
> occurs to me that perhaps my computer does not have
> installed the appropriate certs to function with TLS.
> How would I ever have known they were missing if they
> were not being used? So maybe their goofyness has allowed me to miss
> something that I was doing something wrong from way back when I first got
> started
> in Debian in about Y2K. Certs are used for https and
> these must be on the computer because it manages to
> connect to my banks (2) , but maybe the ones needed to do SMTP are some
> different? How can I check. I have found some instructions for using gmail
> as a smart host and I'm trying to follow them, but things are not
> working. When I press the 'y' key in mutt to send an
> email, the message 'sending...' displays in the bottom
> line, but it stays there for many minutes when it once would accept an email
> is just a few seconds. How can I
> find out what is happening during that time? Is there
> some debug tool?
>
> Thoughts or suggestions?
>
> --
> Paul
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