Re: My latest attempts

Barry L. Bond <[email protected]> wrote:
> Thank you, Scott, for mentioning the port.

Scott must have replied offlist.

> I added "port = 995" or whatever and in the log it does show that it

I don't think Scott's suggestion - what I can guess of it - will actually fix
your problem.

As I said in my original reply, please provide your getmail configuration.
Not a description of it, or a summary of it, or a few bits from it that you
think are relevant.

Provide the complete, unedited output of running getmail with your normal
options plus the "--dump" option, and I'm pretty sure I can give you your
solution in 10 seconds.

> I am interpreting what Jay called the "Incoming Server port" for
> MYincoming mail. (I guess so far as their server is concerned, what
> Iconsider outgoing mail would be incoming to their server...)
> os9barry @ spectrum.net

Jay's terminology is indeed strange.  "Incoming" and "outgoing" are completely
relative to which end of the connection you are talking about.

993/995 are for IMAP- and POP-over-TLS respectively.  You fetch your stored
mail with these.

Port 587 is known as "submission".  It's basically SMTP used to transport mail
from a dumbhost to an actual mail server that knows what to do with it.  You
configure your MUA to send mail to your ISP's mailserver on this port.

Regular SMTP, which servers use to pass mail to other servers, runs on port
25.  You, as an end-user, are unlikely to ever need to use this, as submission
is generally supported for that use case.

Charles
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