Re: Problems with balsa and att.net settings

[Paweł Sałek <pawsa0 gmail com>]

On 11/01/2010 05:10:57 PM, William Austin wrote:
> (I hope this gets through - I recently tried to change my email  
> address from
> waustin speakeasy net to airedad att net, and now I cannot get in  
> with either
> address...)
>
> I recently had to change my email address when my former ISP  
> announced a
> significant price hike for my service (home office but need multiple  
> static IP
> addresses).  So I changed over to ATT uverse and now have to go  
> through the
> att.net post office -  I can receive email but not send.
>
> My outgoing mailhost _MUST_ be smtp.att.yahoo.net:465 (port 465), and  
> I MUST use
> SSL. (have tried with and without TLS - seems to make no difference.)

Isn't part of the problem that stock libesmtp does not support SSL  
connections (esmtps)? I have developed such a patch once (attached).

Of course, balsa needs to be patched as well, but the change is fairly  
trivial...

Pawel

> However, even though I enter this info (along with my user name and  
> password) it
> looks as if my outgoing email is not using SSL.  This is the only  
> mailer I'm
> having trouble using, but I would prefer not to change (I actually  
> LIKE balsa).
>
> Any help would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Thanks
>  - wwa
>
>  william w. austin
> airedad att net (NOTE NEW ADDRESS!)
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