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setting_up_mail_clients [2022/09/22 06:26] – [Sending Email] peteyboysetting_up_mail_clients [2022/09/22 06:44] – [Sending Email] added example again 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.   * 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'' at the shell, using the "set secret" option. **The auth secret is not your SDF password**; please **do not set secret to your SDF password**.   * Set your SMTP AUTH secret with ''mkvpm'' at the shell, using the "set secret" option. **The auth secret is not your SDF password**; please **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. alien8r.sdf.org@sdf.org)
     * The right [domain name] to you should use depends on how you have obtained VPM membership:     * The right [domain name] to you should use depends on how you have obtained VPM membership:
       * If you can access VPM because you are **paying dues for a VHOST**, your SMTP AUTH user name is simply your VHOSTed domain name (ex: 'irulecomputers.com@sdf.org')       * If you can access VPM because you are **paying dues for a VHOST**, your SMTP AUTH user name is simply your VHOSTed domain name (ex: 'irulecomputers.com@sdf.org')
-      *  If you can access VPM because you are **paying dues for VPM or are METAARPA**, your domain name is your SDF website domain, for example user 'alan8r' site for metaarpa could be <nowiki>https://alien8r.sdf.org</nowiki>, so their domain would be 'alien8r.sdf.org', so their SMTP Auth user would be 'alien8r.sdf.org@sdf.org'+      *  If you can access VPM because you are **paying dues for VPM or are METAARPA**, your domain name is your SDF website domain, for example user 'alien8r' site for metaarpa could be <nowiki>https://alien8r.sdf.org</nowiki>, so their domain would be 'alien8r.sdf.org', so their SMTP Auth user would be 'alien8r.sdf.org@sdf.org'
   * SMTP via STARTTLS is recommended. Some email clients may refer to STARTTLS as TLS. TLS/SSL is not STARTTLS.   * SMTP via STARTTLS is recommended. Some email clients may refer to STARTTLS as TLS. TLS/SSL is not STARTTLS.
  
-Here are example settings as discussed above: +As an example of the above: 
-  Server Name: mx.sdf.org +|**SMTP server**| mx.sdf.org| 
-  Port: 587 +|**Security**| "STARTTLS" | 
-  User Name: alien8r.sdf.org@sdf.org +|**Port**| 587 | 
-  Authentication Method: Encrypted password +|**Username**|alien8r.sdf.org@sdf.org| 
-  Connection Security: STARTTLS+|**Authentication**| "Encrypted password" | 
 +|**Password**|//password set via mkvpm //|
  
  
setting_up_mail_clients.txt · Last modified: 2022/09/22 06:45 by peteyboy