From: oldrah@hotmail.com   
      
   On 10/18/2025 10:22 PM, Ant wrote:   
   > 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. :(   
   >   
   OK, I changed my Earthlink setting to STARTTLS and now I can send out   
   via Earthlink. Still cannot send via Hotmail; loops requesting a password.   
   Dick   
      
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