Re: [gentoo-user] [SOLVED] [OT] Anyone running mutt outboung smtp on port 587?

[Walter Dnes <waltdnes@waltdnes.org>]

On Mon, Jan 22, 2024 at 10:08:38PM +0000, Michael wrote

> If your ISP *only* offers access from their own block of IPs, do
> they refuse access to their SMTP server for legitimate subscribers
> who move around and want to send messages from a different network?

  I don't know the answer to that one.

> Anyway, if you disable TLS encryption then your communication with
> the server is sent in the clear.  It would be prudent to consider it
> as a form of public communication, rather than private.  I thought
> email comms encryption and server authentication was ubiquitous for
> decades now, but obviously I am wrong!  :-)

  The message from my ISP about port 587 said...

>> It has to be set with SSL, without any authentication.

  Does SSL help privacy at all?  BTW, if mutt does *ANY* external
ccommunication it seems to require the "ssl" USE flag.  Trying...

USE="-ssl" emerge -pv mutt

...on my system dies with...

  The following REQUIRED_USE flag constraints are unsatisfied:
    imap? ( ssl ) pop? ( ssl ) smtp? ( ssl )



  This message coming to you via port 587

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