[Discuss] Verizon blacklisted me

[bogstad at pobox.com (Bill Bogstad)]

On Fri, Aug 8, 2014 at 3:26 PM, Daniel Barrett <dbarrett at blazemonger.com> wrote:
> Chapter 2 of the saga...
>
> After Verizon insisted for the Nth time that I am not blacklisted and
> my email client settings must be wrong, I tried an experiment. My
> Verizon username and password definitely work on verizon.com and
> webmail.verizon.com. Could it be possible, I wondered, that they could
> be failing ONLY on smtp.verizon.net? The answer appears to be YES.
>
> I used telnet and stunnel4 to talk to smtp.verizon.net over port 465,
> using the "AUTH LOGIN" command to authenticate, after base-64-encoding
> my username and password:

I thought about suggesting this earlier, but you might try it with a
"well-known"
client program (i.e. Outlook)

This Verizon web page seems official

http://www.verizon.com/Support/Residential/Internet/fiosinternet/Email/Setup+And+Use/QuestionsOne/124289.htm?CMP=DMC-CVZ_ZZ_ZZ_Z_ZZ_N_X322

Bill Bogstad