From: ant@zimage.comANT   
      
   DICK HOFFMAN  wrote:   
   > On 10/17/2025 7:00 PM, Ant wrote:   
   > > DICK HOFFMAN  wrote:   
   > >> 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   
   > >> I messed around with the server settings for the two email accounts,   
   > >> Earthlink and Hotmail, that I have under SeaMonkey. After totally   
   > >> screwing them up I managed to get them back to where I can receive mail   
   > >> from both. However I cannot send mail from either. I am currently using   
   > >> web mail for both via Edge and can send and receive there. When I try to   
   > >> send an email from Earthlink under SeaMonkey I get a circling image that   
   > >> just hangs there and I eventually cancel the email. Under Hotmail when I   
   > >> try to send I get a request for my password but entering the correct one   
   > >> just loops back to an invalid password message and the same request for   
   > >> a password. I have defined different outgoing SMTP servers for the two   
   > >> accounts. Would sharing just one between the two work? Seems to me it   
   > >> would cause authentication problems but maybe there's a way around that.   
   > >> Dick   
   > >   
   > > I use old EarthLink (ELN) with SM. Do you have smtpauth.earthlink.net   
   > > (port 587; STARTTLS connection security, normal password authentication   
   > > method, and user e-mail adddress as user name?) in your ELN's SMTP   
   > > server? I don't use Hotmail in SM so I can't help you on that.   
   > >   
   > Not quite. For the Earthlink account I have smtpauth.earthlink.net, port   
   > 587 and SSL/TLS specified...   
      
   For ELN's smtpauth.earthlink.net with SSL/TLS connection security, mine   
   fails. I have to use STARTTLS connection security if I want to send   
   e-mails from it. :(   
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