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setting_up_mail_clients [2020/06/26 07:29] – created peteyboysetting_up_mail_clients [2022/09/22 06:45] (current) – [Sending Email] change "password" to "Auth Secret" peteyboy
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 ===== Introduction ===== ===== Introduction =====
  
-SDF uses SMTP Authentication to allow remote network clients such as desktop, tablet and phone mail applications to use its SMTP server for the purpose of sending (relaying) e-mail messages. SDF users with the VPM, VHOST and MetaARPA memberships have access to the SMTP server.+SDF uses SMTP Authentication to allow remote network clients such as desktop, tablet and phone mail applications to use its SMTP server for the purpose of sending (relaying) e-mail messages. **SDF users with the VPM, VHOST and MetaARPA memberships have access to the SMTP server**.
 ===== Quick Starter Notes ===== ===== Quick Starter Notes =====
  
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 ==== Sending Email ==== ==== Sending Email ====
 +In order to access SDF's SMTP server, you need to have a membership level that includes [[https://sdf.org/?join | VPM]]
  
   * SDF's SMTP server is mx.sdf.org   * SDF's SMTP server is mx.sdf.org
   * 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 set secret at the shell. The auth secret is not your SDF password; plese 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: 
 +      * 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 '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.
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 +As an example of the above:
 +|**SMTP server**| mx.sdf.org|
 +|**Security**| "STARTTLS" |
 +|**Port**| 587 |
 +|**Username**|alien8r.sdf.org@sdf.org|
 +|**Authentication**| "Encrypted password" |
 +|**Password**|//Auth Secret set via mkvpm //|
 +
  
 Please note: the SMTP AUTH secret is set on the command line via mkvpm. The command history of the shell may keep the secret in the history file. Please note: the SMTP AUTH secret is set on the command line via mkvpm. The command history of the shell may keep the secret in the history file.
  
-==== The Mail Client Configurations ====+===== The Mail Client Configurations =====
  
 Please note that BlueMail on Android does not support the correct password encryption algorithm, and therefore you cannot set up your SDF email account under BlueMail. The devs have been notified of this bug; if they do fix it, the instructions here will be updated. Please note that BlueMail on Android does not support the correct password encryption algorithm, and therefore you cannot set up your SDF email account under BlueMail. The devs have been notified of this bug; if they do fix it, the instructions here will be updated.
  
-=== The Mail Client Configurations === 
  
-[[K-9 Mail for Android]] +  * [[K-9 Mail for Android]] 
-[[Outlook Express under Windows]] +  [[Outlook Express under Windows]] 
-[[Mail.App under MacOS X]] +  [[Mail.App under MacOS X]] 
-[[Mozilla Thunderbird under Windows]] +  [[Mozilla Thunderbird under Windows]] 
-[[Heirloom Mailx under Linux/BSD]] +  [[Traditional mail(1)/mailx(1)]] 
-[[Postfix MTA on NetBSD 6.x]] +  [[Postfix MTA on NetBSD 6.x]] 
-[[iPhone Mail Application]]+  [[iPhone Mail Application]]
  
 Please note that BlueMail on Android does not support the correct password encryption algorithm, and therefore you cannot set up your SDF email account under BlueMail. The devs have been notified of this bug; if they do fix it, the instructions here will be updated. Please note that BlueMail on Android does not support the correct password encryption algorithm, and therefore you cannot set up your SDF email account under BlueMail. The devs have been notified of this bug; if they do fix it, the instructions here will be updated.
  
 You should be sending and receiving your SDF mail on your iPhone!  You should be sending and receiving your SDF mail on your iPhone! 
setting_up_mail_clients.1593156583.txt.gz · Last modified: 2020/06/26 07:29 by peteyboy