Ritlab's "The Bat" mail settings

[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.

[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?

[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/

[darrylo]

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.

[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~