[ale] Need help using Evolution thru ATT servers

[Lightner, Jeffrey]

Did you try port 587 for the outbound server.

On attempting to connect to it on port 465 just now from command line it failed but on port 587 it accepted the connection.

I had done setup with them for a neighbor a few years back but they eventually switched to Comcast.

It was interesting to find that the email account they give you is actually a Yahoo account.  Not sure if that is still true.



From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of Tim Watts
Sent: Tuesday, August 08, 2017 3:32 PM
To: ale at ale.org
Subject: [ale] Need help using Evolution thru ATT servers

Hi Folks,

Just switched to ATT for internet (don't ask) and am having trouble
accessing email via Evolution (3.2.3).  The support desk was
characteristically useless.  I believe I have the basic set up details
correct but when I go to recieve email, Evolution goes into 'Waiting...'
when connecting to the server until it fails on a time-out.

Anyone successfully connecting to ATT via Evolution?  Any help would be
appreciated.

CONFIG:
Receiving:
        Server Type     : POP
        Server          : inbound.att.net
        Port            : 995
        User Name       : <my att email>
        Encryption      : SSL
        Auth. Type      : Password (supposedly the only supported type according to Evolution's server query.)

When receiving, the error msg I get is:
"Could not connect to inbound.att.net: Connection timed out"

Sending:
        Server Type     : SMTP
        Server          : outbound.att.net
        Port            : 465
        Encryption      : SSL
        Auth. Type      : Login (also tried PLAIN which is also supposedly supported)
        User name       : <my att email>

When sending, the error msg I get is:
"MAIL FROM command failed: 5.7.1 Authentication required"

Again, if you've successfully connected to ATT with Evolution or any other Linux client I would appreciate hearing from you.

Thanks in advance.

Tim Watts (aka tim at cliftonfarm.org<mailto:tim at cliftonfarm.org>)

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