Re: Finding a replacement for my ISP's smtp server
On Sun 27 Jul 2014 at 07:49:47 -0600, Paul E Condon wrote:
> 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.
A fix for what? One which takes up to days? Has this got anything to do
with what you wrote below?
> 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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