Subj : Re: GMail...
From : Gaston Martres
Date : Sun Apr 10 2022 05:04 pm
BW> On 09 Apr 2022, Al DeRosa said the following...
BW>
BW> AD> Google is going to not allow less secure apps to access their platfor
BW> AD> next month.. Is there a way around this for using the password reset
BW> AD> function? I chose Gmail back in the day when this feature was introdu
BW> AD> because the docs pretty much said it was simpler to use. Can we use a
BW> AD> regular email account?
BW>
BW> Just about any e-mail provider which accepts SMTP message submission
BW> should work, I think.
BW>
BW> However -- if I recall correctly -- when speaking to the SMTP server,
BW> Mystic will say:
BW>
BW> MAIL FROM: <
[email protected]>
BW>
BW> ...and it will also (in the message headers, i.e., as part of the
BW> message data) state:
BW>
BW> From: <
[email protected]>
BW>
BW> ...where yourbbsdomain.here is the value of Servers --> General Options
BW> --> Domain Name.
BW>
BW> This might cause some e-mail services to refuse the message -- even
BW> though Mystic authenticates itself to the SMTP server using the
BW> credentials from Servers --> General Options --> SMTP Login and Servers
BW> --> General Options --> SMTP Password.
BW>
BW> I know Microsoft's outlook.com e-mail service refuse such messages, for
BW> example.
BW>
BW> In my case, I had to configure Mystic to submit the e-mails to my
BW> locally-listening-and-relaying SMTP server on my Linux box instead, and
BW> have that one rewrite
[email protected] in the message data to
BW> match the actual e-mail address of the outlook.com account... And let it
BW> relay the e-mail to outlook.com, authenticating with the outlook.com
BW> account credentials.
It is known that microsoft expects a few thing just for allowing you to send mail to outlook.com,hotmail.com and so accounts.
One of this things is to join or pay a subscription to their service for secure mails or mail servers. I dont recall right now the name, but this is one of the things that made me drop out offering hosting plans when I had a hosting service.
BW>
BW> So there might be some pitfalls, but in any case, it's worth trying out
BW> another e-mail provider.
For other smtp servers and mail providers it is not enough just using TLS. You will have to configure DKIM keys and dns entries, SPF entries as well, a reverse dns pointing to your mail server, a good reputation on RBL lists, and so on.
Cheers!
Cyberzoo
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