From: mrbarryedw.20@aussiebroadband.com.au   
      
   DICK HOFFMAN wrote on 9/10/25 10:34 am:   
   > On 10/3/2025 4:00 PM, Barryedwin1 wrote:   
   >> DICK HOFFMAN wrote on 4/10/25 2:23 am:   
   >>> 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   
   >> Yeah, I got caught by my ISP when using my gmail "From" address via pop.   
   >> Their security reckons I am spoofing the sender address, but by using   
   >> their supplied email address via their POP server, all is okay.   
   >> The increasing security is darn inconvenient.   
   >> How about all those flaws that a new improved DKIM2 supposedly fixes?   
   >> Looks like the software also is a bit to blame.   
   >> Barry.   
   > I went back to Smith's post and reread it carefully. Then I looked at   
   > the SeaMonkey server settings for my Hotmail account again and found   
   > that I had not set my email address correctly in the SMTP settings. I've   
   > fixed that and now emails seem to be going through correctly. Had to be   
   > some little thing that I overlooked. Thanks for the responses I got.   
   > Dick   
      
   Heh! It's the little things that get you every time eh? Happy it is   
   fixed. Barry.   
      
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