When I get my email from pop.spamcop.net, it does not support secure authentication nor TTL.
I will be traveling, and am more concerned with security than I was on my home PC. Do you support some way to not send passwords in the clear?
--John
Full Version: Secure Authentication?
Is Secure Authentication still unsupported with IMAP4? I'm using Thunderbird on GNU/Linux. SSL/Port 993 and TLS/port 143 both seem to work, but not Secure Authentication, unless I'm doing something wrong.
Merged 'new' Topc into an existing Discussion, as it sure seems to cover the same ground.
Hi,
Until last month, I've been sending mail out via smtp.cesmail.net on port 587 (without encryption) quite successfully ever since soon after the Spamcop SMTP service was originally introduced.
But since early last month, it's been taking up to a quarter of an hour to send a single 5K e-mail out, because each of the sending protocol phases such as EHLO, AUTH LOGIN, RSET, MAIL FROM, DATA, QUIT have been sticking, waiting for a response, for minutes on end. These delays get worse in the busy evening period, often resulting in timeout failures.
I put this down to heavy port throttling on 587 being imposed by my local ISP (I'm in Thailand by the way), probably in an attempt to curb spam abuse and chronic traffic overload. The reason I suspect selective port throttling is because I can complete mail check protocols and download a few mails from Spamcop on port 110 over the same busy evening period within a few seconds. It's only my SMTP sending that suffers these delays.
So I'd like to try changing to SSL and using a different port. I've already tried sending to smtp.csmail.net on standard SSL port 465, but that didn't seem to work.
Please can anyone tell me the right port number and SMTP server address I should be using for SSL?
Hi,
Until last month, I've been sending mail out via smtp.cesmail.net on port 587 (without encryption) quite successfully ever since soon after the Spamcop SMTP service was originally introduced.
But since early last month, it's been taking up to a quarter of an hour to send a single 5K e-mail out, because each of the sending protocol phases such as EHLO, AUTH LOGIN, RSET, MAIL FROM, DATA, QUIT have been sticking, waiting for a response, for minutes on end. These delays get worse in the busy evening period, often resulting in timeout failures.
I put this down to heavy port throttling on 587 being imposed by my local ISP (I'm in Thailand by the way), probably in an attempt to curb spam abuse and chronic traffic overload. The reason I suspect selective port throttling is because I can complete mail check protocols and download a few mails from Spamcop on port 110 over the same busy evening period within a few seconds. It's only my SMTP sending that suffers these delays.
So I'd like to try changing to SSL and using a different port. I've already tried sending to smtp.csmail.net on standard SSL port 465, but that didn't seem to work.
Please can anyone tell me the right port number and SMTP server address I should be using for SSL?
That issue should be posted as a separate topic, since it's not about Secure Authentication.
QUOTE(Dave_L @ Apr 3 2009, 02:42 PM) 
That issue should be posted as a separate topic, since it's not about Secure Authentication.
My OP is about secure authentication. I'm asking about the right port number and SMTP server address I should be using for SSL.
I've got SSL working OK on the POP side, but not SMTP on smtp.cesmail.net. Has anyone else managed to get this to work? If so, please could you say what settings you're using.
Many thanks.
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