Re: alpine mail client with gmx.net as mail provider
On Fri, 24 Jul 2015 11:49:51 +0200
"Thomas Schmitt" <scdbackup@gmx.net> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> after a few weeks of settling i got my Debian 8.1 nearly into
> the shape of its deceased predecessor (antique SuSE which died
> from southbridge radiator pop-off due to material fatigue).
>
> Two problems remain: alpine with mail provider GMX and /dev/sr1
> trying to bite my fingers.
>
> As for the first one:
>
> I cannot get alpine mail client to send mail via mail.gmx.net:465.
> It reports "Bad sequence of commands" which is probably SMTP error
> 503.
> My own primitive SMTP client does work (by help of stunnel for SSL).
>
> Does anybody have a alpine configuration which currently works via
> SMTP with GMX (a major german mail provider) ?
I don't know alpine, but does this help?
https://github.com/deanproxy/eMail/issues/7
Additionally, you can try playing around with SSL vs. STARTTLS, or port
465 vs. 587
> Or proposals how to watch the SMTP traffic between alpine and
> the SMTP server ?
Does anything here help?
https://sesblog.amazon.com/post/Tx2XI5HYBCFC959/Debugging-SMTP-Conversations-Part-3-Analyzing-TCP-Packets
FWIW, I use gmx.com (is this the same as your gmx?) with Sylpheed, and
it works fine (port 465 with SSL, no STARTTLS).
Celejar
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