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   DICK HOFFMAN to All   
   Re: Email rejecting messages   
   03 Oct 25 14:23:06   
   
   From: oldrah@hotmail.com   
      
   On 10/3/2025 12:14 AM, Barryedwin1 wrote:   
   > DICK HOFFMAN wrote on 3/10/25 6:30 am:   
   >> On 9/3/2025 7:37 PM, DICK HOFFMAN wrote:   
   >>> Email is sometimes but not always rejecting messages sent to it with   
   >>> an error message stating the message was determined to be   
   >>> "unsolicited". My suspicion is that this is a result of gmail   
   >>> enabling DKIM (whatever that is). In server settings for my hotmail   
   >>> under SeaMonkey I have specified CONNECTIONS SECURITY: SSL/TLS and   
   >>> AUTHENTICATION METHOD: TLS Certificate. Should I change the Auth.   
   >>> method to OAUTH2 to stop this from happening?   
   >>> Dick Hoffman   
   >>   
   >>   
   >> Now I'm getting emails rejected by sbcglobal for a similar reason   
   >> involving something called DKIM that I totally do not understand. Is   
   >> there some SeaMonkey setting I need to turn on to comply with whatever   
   >> DKIM requires?   
   >> Dick Hoffman   
   >>   
   >    
   >   
   > There's an interesting read on DKIM at the above link.   
   > (I didn't know what it was either!)   
   > As Smith advised, the problem is at the ISP, MS and Google end, not   
   > SeaMonkey. I never realised that emails get changed by security checks.   
   > No solution, but does explain it. HTH Barry   
   >   
   Thanks for the link. Now I know more than I did. So I'm basically at the   
   mercy of the domains that are handling my emails?   
   Dick   
      
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