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   Nuno Silva to DICK HOFFMAN   
   Re: Email rejecting messages   
   09 Oct 25 23:20:00   
   
   From: nunojsilva@invalid.invalid   
      
   >>>>>> 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?   
      
   Unless I'm missing or misunderstanding something, I think this kind of   
   issue would not involve such connection security or authentication   
   settings.   
      
   On 2025-10-09, DICK HOFFMAN wrote:   
   > On 10/8/2025 10:34 PM, DICK HOFFMAN wrote:   
   >> 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   
   > I spoke too soon; an email to a gmail account went through but one to   
   > an sbcglobal account bounced back. I still think something about my   
   > server settings is wrong but what?   
   > Dick   
      
   When it bounces back, what does it list as a reason? Also, who is   
   bouncing it back, and who sent them the message being bounced back?   
      
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   Nuno Silva   
      
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