Re: alpine mail client with gmx.net as mail provider

[David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk>]

Quoting Thomas Schmitt (scdbackup@gmx.net):

> 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).

I'm wondering if there's a mismatch in agreement between the client
and the server as to when encryption starts. Port 465 should be
encrypted straightaway, whereas others like 25 and 785 are not, so you
can use starttls on them. Perhaps try the same method, just changing
the port?

What about the logs? Alpine allegedly writes .pine-debug files as
pine used to (20 years ago in my case) which should show the
conversation.

Cheers,
David.