Friday, May 2, 2014

Gaah!!!!

I just spent the better part of three f#@&ing hours fixing an esoteric server problem with the Verizon SMTP servers that read bedeviling my wife's email program (Eudora).

We are talking in the weeds bulsh#@ port numbers and authentication settings.

I knew that one would work, but the permutations are a mind f#@$.

My gears us that someone retaken the thing because of Heartbleed.

FWIW, it was an SMTP server of smtp.verizon.net, authentication on, SSL/TLS on, port 465.

Shoot me now.


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3 comments:

  1. Port 465 is not that unusual, though 587 is more common.

    But, um, the real news is that someone still uses Eudora...

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  2. Well, I use Pine on my shell, which is very old school.

    As to my wife using Eudora, I really do not want to teach her another package.

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  3. I still use mutt a lot (mailsync is a wonderful utility). Yet somehow, Eudora doesn't seem old-school in a good way :-)

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