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|    Rick Smith to g00r00    |
|    Email Validate    |
|    12 Aug 21 21:46:40    |
      REPLY: 1:129/215 56526130       MSGID: 1:105/10 6115f971       CHRS: UTF-8 2       TZUTC: -0700       Greetings g00r00!              Thursday August 12 2021 21:26, you wrote to me about an urgent matter!:               gr> * Forwarded from area 'MYSTIC'        RS>> 11 2021.11.08 08:25:49 MYSTIC 001 Could not authenticate to SMTP        RS>> server 12 2021.11.08 22:17:22 MYSTIC 001 Could not connect to        RS>> SMTP server        RS>>        RS>> every other server and service that hits that smtp server        RS>> validates and sends the message so I am not sure why this bbs        RS>> stopped working.               gr> Have you double checked your SMTP settings in Config > Servers >        gr> General?               gr> It should not be possible for it to say "Could not athenticate"        gr> without showing the raw communication with the SMTP server in your        gr> node log (unless your settings are somehow wrong/corrupt).              Ill have a look at it again, but ive made no changes to it and it went from       working just fine to "unable to send email" when selecting yes to validate                            ----       Regards,                      Rick Smith (Nitro)              ... TAGLINE A BBS addict is hooked when: you consider BBSing better than       chocolat       --- GoldED+/LNX 1.1.5-b20180707        * Origin: ----> Abacus BBS! --->>>>bbs.abon.us:2323 (1:105/10)       SEEN-BY: 1/123 90/1 105/5 7 10 11 81 82 105 420 120/340 123/131 129/305       SEEN-BY: 226/30 227/114 702 229/101 424 426 428 452 550 700 981 1016       SEEN-BY: 229/1017 240/5832 249/206 307 317 400 282/1038 292/854 301/1       SEEN-BY: 317/3 322/757 342/200 633/280       PATH: 105/10 81 229/426           |
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