<div dir="ltr">Sorted! I changed the SMTP port to #587 and all was well. Can't imagine this is very interesting for anyone but I'll leave the info here....</div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sat, 24 Oct 2020 at 21:47, Will Meister <<a href="mailto:niftyprose@gmail.com">niftyprose@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Hello guys, I'm a very new user of Claws and suspect that this is one<br>of those queries that comes up often -- sorry for being boring.<br><br>I installed Claws because a client asked me to access their POPmail. They gave me my username and password:<br><br><a href="mailto:will@clientdomain.com" target="_blank">will@clientdomain.com</a><br>random_st8ff<br><br>incoming and outgoing servers, both:<br><br><a href="http://mail.clientisp.com" target="_blank">mail.clientisp.com</a><br><a href="http://mail.clientisp.com" target="_blank">mail.clientisp.com</a><br><div><br></div><div>(I'm guessing POP/SMTP)</div><div><br></div><div>I can download mail reliably. Sending mail usually gets an authentication error. I tried the obvious variants as SMTP authentication /PLAIN / LOGIN; here's a log from the failed send:</div><div><br></div><div>* Account '<a href="mailto:will@ziggytec.com" target="_blank">will@ziggytec.com</a>': Connecting to SMTP server: mail.blacknight.com:25...<br>[21:44:21] SMTP< 220 <a href="http://mail.blacknight.com" target="_blank">mail.blacknight.com</a> ESMTP<br>[21:44:21] ESMTP> EHLO niftynetbook<br>[21:44:21] ESMTP< <a href="http://250-mail.blacknight.com" target="_blank">250-mail.blacknight.com</a><br>*** Error occurred while sending the message.<br></div><div><br></div><div>I suspect that this is going to be something small and subtle between the program and this particular ISP's setup, which appears idiosyncratic. TIA for any help.</div><div><br></div><div>WM.</div></div>
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