Re: SMTP library problem

[David <de_bb@arcor.de>]

Stephen Berman <Stephen.Berman@gmx.net> writes:
> Telnetting to port 25 just times out as above with no port.  I also
> tried swaks:
>
> $ swaks -s mail.myprovider.com

If it is indeed ssmtp you would have to call swaks with

swaks --auth --tls-on-connect -p 465 -s mail.myprovider.com

> Again, I can send and receive mail via this server using KMail, which I
> set up simply by providing the server's FQDN and my user name (KMail
> figured out the port and authorization method and prompts for my
> password).  So I expected (and still hope) there's some way to access it
> with Gnus.

If the above swaks command works, you can use an external tool like
stunnel to set up the SSL connection. If you have root on the machine,
you can use stunnel like this

stunnel -f -c -d localhost:2000 -r mail.myprovider.com:465

You should then be able to send mails through your localhost on port
2000. Note that the '-f' option lets stunnel run in the foreground for
testing purposes. If it works, you can omit this option and let stunnel
run as daemon.

-David