Problems sending mail with Fastmail

PANDORA DEMO 4.2.1.1

IMAP ACCOUNT

i am needing to know what should my SMTP settings be set as?

I have tried:

SMTP.FASTMAIL.COM

Auth: Basic

Secure Sockets: Required

Port 587

and I get this VERY VAGUE error message:

Task: Sending 'test' [<Dominant>]
Status: Not Completed
Details: Connection with host server 'smtp.fastmail.com' established successfully. Round-trip time: 891 ms.
Completed: 4 %
Time: 10/20/2022 8:58:01 AM


But if I change the settings to:

SMTP.FASTMAIL.COM

Auth: Basic

Secure Sockets:  IF AVAILABLE

Port 587

I am able to send mail... We had a discussion on the Eudora group last year about this and how using  " IF AVAILABLE"  is dangerous because E might send your user name and password via clear text and someone could intercept that info and be able to hack into your email account. ( Even though I have 2 step enabled and use a 2 step password)

Thanks,
Chris

Hi Chris
I use the following settings successfully:
smtp.fastmail.com
Authentication: Basic
Sockets: Always (TLS/SSL)
Port: 465
Remember that you need to give Pandora a password generated by Fastmail, which is different from the password your browser uses to log in for webmail.
Pandora is currently at version 4.2.4.1 (November 7)

Davo

CWM030 wrote:PANDORA DEMO 4.2.1.1

IMAP ACCOUNT

i am needing to know what should my SMTP settings be set as?

I have tried:

SMTP.FASTMAIL.COM

Auth: Basic

Secure Sockets: Required

Port 587

and I get this VERY VAGUE error message:

Task: Sending 'test' [<Dominant>]
Status: Not Completed
Details: Connection with host server 'smtp.fastmail.com' established successfully. Round-trip time: 891 ms.
Completed: 4 %
Time: 10/20/2022 8:58:01 AM


But if I change the settings to:

SMTP.FASTMAIL.COM

Auth: Basic

Secure Sockets:  IF AVAILABLE

Port 587

I am able to send mail... We had a discussion on the Eudora group last year about this and how using  " IF AVAILABLE"  is dangerous because E might send your user name and password via clear text and someone could intercept that info and be able to hack into your email account. ( Even though I have 2 step enabled and use a 2 step password)

Thanks,
Chris

When you set the port authentication to Always, then set the SMTP port to 465.  Never use the If Available authentication.

Butch