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--- setting_up_mail_clients [2020/06/26 07:53] – clean up peteyboy
+++ setting_up_mail_clients [2022/06/24 23:44] – [Sending Email] more descriptive SMTP AUTH peteyboy
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   * SDF's SMTP server listens on port 25 as well as ports 23, 53, 587 and 8080. Some ISPs throttle or block activity on port 25.
   * Set your SMTP AUTH secret with mkvpm set secret at the shell. The auth secret is not your SDF password; plese do not set secret to your SDF password.
-  * Your SMTP AUTH username is your domain name@sdf.org (ex. alan8r.sdf.org@sdf.org)
+  * Your SMTP AUTH username is [your domain name] @sdf.org (ex. alan8r.sdf.org@sdf.org)
+    * If you are accessing VPM because you are paying dues for a VHOST, your SMTP AUTH user name is your VHOST domain name
+    *  If you are accessing VPM because you are paying dues or VPM or are METAARPA, your domain name is your SDF website domain, for example user 'alan8r' site for metaarpa could be <nowiki>https://alan8r.sdf.org</nowiki>, so their domain would be 'alan8r.sdf.org', so their SMTP Auth user would be 'alan8r.sdf.org@sdf.org'
   * SMTP via STARTTLS is recommended. Some email clients may refer to STARTTLS as TLS. TLS/SSL is not STARTTLS.
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   * [[Mail.App under MacOS X]]
   * [[Mozilla Thunderbird under Windows]]
-  * [[Heirloom Mailx under Linux/BSD]]
+  * [[Traditional mail(1)/mailx(1)]]
   * [[Postfix MTA on NetBSD 6.x]]
   * [[iPhone Mail Application]]