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Ritlab's "The Bat" mail settings
Posted: Thu Oct 09, 2014 9:58 am
by mudbunny
Anyone using Ritlab's "The Bat" as their mail client?
Just loss the ability to send mail (this morning) after upgrading to V.6 (last night) and want to verify my settings.
Re: Ritlab's "The Bat" mail settings
Posted: Fri Oct 10, 2014 1:09 am
by mudbunny
Ok, anybody care to explain why two of my emails address are set to:
SMTP Server: mail.sonic.net
SMTP Connection: Secure on dedicated port (TLS)
SMTP Port:465
Incoming mail protocol:POP v3
Incoming mail server:pop.sonic.net
Connection to incoming mail server: Secure on dedicated port (TLS)
Incoming mail server port: 995
But to get the third one to send and receive I had to set it up as:
SMTP Server: mail.sonic.net
SMTP Connection: Regular (no encryption)
SMTP Port:25
Incoming mail protocol:POP v3
Incoming mail server
pop.sonic.net
Connection to incoming mail server
Secure on dedicated port (TLS)
Incoming mail server port:995
Shouldn't they all be the same?
Re: Ritlab's "The Bat" mail settings
Posted: Fri Oct 10, 2014 8:38 am
by cdkeen
"You can use the standard ports of 465 or 587 depending on your client and needs. Some people feel that using 465 and implicit ssl is more secure."
https://corp.sonic.net/status/2014/09/0 ... sonic-net/
Re: Ritlab's "The Bat" mail settings
Posted: Fri Oct 10, 2014 2:37 pm
by darrylo
mudbunny wrote:But to get the third one to send and receive I had to set it up as:
SMTP Server: mail.sonic.net
SMTP Connection: Regular (no encryption)
SMTP Port:25
This is a bad practice, and you should have this part set to the same as the other accounts (there's really no reason why it shouldn't work, unless you had a typo in your username/password). Not using encryption is like leaving all of your doors and windows unlocked
and wide open in a bad crime area ....
You can probably -- maybe -- get away with this, as long as you only do this from home.
However, if you use this at, say, a public internet hotspot, you're potentially opening yourself up to having your account/identity stolen.
Re: Ritlab's "The Bat" mail settings
Posted: Fri Oct 10, 2014 10:27 pm
by mudbunny
@ cdkeen: Thank-you for the link.
@ darrylo: Thank-you also.
The point was, that it would not work.
I spent a good two hours trying different combinations of port, TLS/STARTTLS
and Authentications trying to get this lone email folder to send and receive,
when the others were working perfectly.
Tonight I changed the send port to "465" /receive to "995" (which I had done before)
and it's now working (no hang time either) fine.
I blame it all on Gnomes.
Mire~