Re: Email from Home

 From Micronet earlier in the week--maybe this is the problem?

Ian

>Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2005 11:01:07 -0800
>To: Aron Roberts <aron@socrates.Berkeley.EDU>, bmuramot@berkeley.edu,
> micronet-list@uclink4.berkeley.edu
>From: Bernie Tower <tower@berkeley.edu>
>Subject: Re: [Micronet] Port 25 Error in Mac Mail after SSL Security
> Measures
>Sender: owner-micronet-list@lists.berkeley.edu
>
>Hi Beth,
>
>As always, Aron is correct.
>
>Just in case, here is the URL for the Opt-out on SBC:
>
>http://help.sbcglobal.net/servabuse.php
>
>-Bernie Tower
> CalMail Consulting
>
>
>At 9:42 AM -0800 2/28/05, Aron Roberts wrote:
>>Hi Beth,
>>
>>>A user got this when he changed his security settings in Mac Mail.
>>>...
>>>"I have been getting an error msg when sending email via my home dsl
>>>services. it has only come up since I've implemented the ssl
>>>requirements. the error says:
>>>
>>>The SMTP server "smtp.sbcglobal.yahoo.com" doesn't support TLS (SSL)
>>>on port 25. Please check your account settings and try again.
>>>...
>>>I talked to sbc yahoo and they said I need to "opt out of port 25
>>>filtering" in order to use ssl for the outgoing smtp server. does this
>>>sound right?
>>
>> The CalMail folks are advising users who connect to the Internet
>>through ISPs which require the use of their own mail servers to either:
>>
>>- Leave their existing 'sending mail' settings in place;
>> that is, to continue to leave one's email program(s)
>> configured to use the ISP's own mail server for sending mail,
>> while configuring secure (SSL/TLS) connections to CalMail for
>> receiving mail from that server via POP or IMAP; or
>>
>>- Configure their email programs to securely send mail to
>> CalMail via the 'alternate' SSL-only SMTP port, port 465,
>> *if* the ISP doesn't filter that port; or
>>
>>- Configure their email programs to securely send mail to
>> CalMail via the 'submission' port, port 587. (Caveat:
>> while this is the preferred method, Internet standards-wise,
>> this can be tricky to configure in Eudora.); or
>>
>>- Opt out of the ISP's filtering of the SMTP port, port 25 - which
>> usually requires a specific request to the ISP, and may take
>> some time - then configure their email programs to connect securely
>> to CalMail's SMTP port, port 25, using the "Required TLS" or "STARTTLS"
>> or similarly named configuration option in their email program.
>>
>> For simplicity, the first option (i.e. leaving one's email
>>program configured to send outgoing mail via the ISP's SMTP server)
>>is what some of the CalMail client configuration docs now reflect.
>>(See the Eudora documents in the CalMail Knowledge Base,
>><http://kb.berkeley.edu>, for examples.)
>>
>> Some of the other docs (e.g. Mail for Mac OS X) are in the
>>process of being similarly revised, but these changes may take
>>another day or two to be reflected in all of the client docs.
>>
>>>if so, I'm I exposing myself to other non-filtered stuff coming thru b/c
>>>I've asked sbc yahoo NOT to filer on port 25?
>>
>> Not to my knowledge. That type of filtering is not for protection
>>against viruses or Internet attacks; rather, it is simply preventing
>>users of that ISP from sending outgoing mail via port 25 through any
>>mail servers except those belonging to the ISP.
>>
>>Aron Roberts
>>Workstation Software Support Group
>

At 8:31 AM -0800 3/3/05, Charles E. James wrote:
>Hi, All
>
>The Associate Director from our department (and others) has been
>trying to use here email from home. She can receive email but can
>not send. We have checked her settings in Eudora (she uses the same
>laptop both at home and work) and all seems well. When she gets into
>work all the mail she tried to send from home goes out normally.
>
>Any ideas why she can not send from home?
>
>Thanks,
>
>Charles
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>IST/Student Information Systems
>U. C. Berkeley California
>510-642-8440
>
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