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--- setting_up_mail_clients [2020/06/26 07:53] – clean up peteyboy
+++ setting_up_mail_clients [2022/09/22 06:45] (current) – [Sending Email] change "password" to "Auth Secret" peteyboy
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 ===== 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 =====
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 ==== 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 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.
+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.
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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]]