On 01/10/2024 12:30, Roger Munford via Hampshire wrote:
I have been long retired but an old programme has come back to bite me.Years ago I wrote a programme in Visual Foxpro using a Chilkat Active X mail component so that the user can send invoices etc by email from the programme. However it has stopped working and it appears that the authentification method used "LOGIN" is no longer supported.
If the leap to oauth2, as others have mentioned, is a step too far it might be worth setting them up with a simple domain name and email hosting package (I can recommend Mythic Beasts for this) which will then allow you to stay with SMTP via LOGIN. They/you also gain the benefit of having real tech support if they ever have problems with their email service. https://www.mythic-beasts.com/hosting -- Adam Piggott, Proprietor, Proactive Services (Computing) https://www.proactiveservices.co.uk/ "I didn't have time to write a short email, so I wrote a long one instead." --Mark Twain Secure communication preferred: Matrix @adam-p:matrix.org, Signal Messenger, OpenPGP.
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