On Sat 25 Mar 2023 at 19:47:35 (-0700), pe...@easthope.ca wrote: > > That looks fine, and shows that you're going to send through their > > port 465, which will require TLS and authentication. So first you need > > to encode your username and password with: > > > > $ echo -e -n '\0username\0password' | base64 > > ... > > I logged in at https://islandhosting.com/login , dug down a few layers > and lucked onto this. > > "Mail Client Manual Settings > ... > Secure SSL/TLS Settings (Recommended) > Username: pe...@easthope.ca > Password: Use the email account¶s password. > Incoming Server: mail.easthope.ca > > IMAP Port: 993 POP3 Port: 995 > > Outgoing Server: mail.easthope.ca > > SMTP Port: 465 > > IMAP, POP3, and SMTP require authentication."
Yes, I got similar but unpersonalised information at: https://islandhosting.com/knowledgebase/21/How-do-I-configure-my-email-client.html > No mention of STARTTLS or TLS on connect. No, just the bit above here: "Secure SSL/TLS Settings (Recommended)" > Tried this > interactive run. > > $ openssl s_client -starttls smtp -crlf -connect mail.easthope.ca:465 In the first instance, just try sending a test message using the commands I gave, except starting off with: $ openssl s_client -crlf -connect mail.easthope.ca:465 After the certificate stuff, you should then see lines like: --- No client certificate CA names sent Peer signing digest: SHA256 Peer signature type: RSA Server Temp Key: ECDH, P-256, 256 bits --- SSL handshake has read 5093 bytes and written 409 bytes Verification: OK --- New, TLSv1.2, Cipher is ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 Server public key is 2048 bit Secure Renegotiation IS supported Compression: NONE Expansion: NONE No ALPN negotiated SSL-Session: Protocol : TLSv1.2 Cipher : ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 Session-ID: EFD2B3AEAA0931063329DA3A26017182365DAA6C5EDC7298FBBB291B8A02752E Session-ID-ctx: Master-Key: +89062342EF919B2EA24ABCBB5C66D643553A888C430BC18E5B764431F31BAC4B949E72DE0910ACB367ADC6B0F9337133 PSK identity: None PSK identity hint: None SRP username: None Start Time: 1679801072 Timeout : 7200 (sec) Verify return code: 0 (ok) Extended master secret: no --- 220 hornby.islandhosting.com ESMTP server ready at Sat, 25 Mar 2023 21:33:16 -0700 → EHLO dalton.invalid 250-hornby.islandhosting.com Hello ip12-345-678-90.ks.ks.cox.net [12.345.678.90] 250-SIZE 52428800 250-8BITMIME 250-PIPELINING 250-PIPECONNECT 250-AUTH PLAIN LOGIN 250-SMTPUTF8 250 HELP And you carry on from there with: AUTH PLAIN encodedstring and so on. Cheers, David.
