TID: Mystic BBS 1.12 A47   
   MSGID: 4:900/108 9f86dce3   
   REPLY: 2:201/137 5bad3f30   
   TZUTC: -0300   
    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:    
    BW>    
    BW> ...and it will also (in the message headers, i.e., as part of the   
    BW> message data) state:   
    BW>    
    BW> From:    
    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 sysop@scbbs.nsupdate.info 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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