[Discuss] vz outgoing mail

[dbarrett at blazemonger.com (Daniel Barrett)]

On October 1, 2014, Matthew Gillen wrote:
>I finally had the problem someone else had a little while back where
>verizon's outgoing relay stopped working.  Took a little fiddling to get
>it working; I believe the OP in that thread was using postfix.  If you
>need to get sendmail going using a similar solution, check out the last
>post in this thread:
>http://forums.verizon.com/t5/Verizon-net-Email/Change-to-smtp-verizon-com-from-outgoing-verizon-com-sendmail/m-p/620653#M13830

The OP was me -- thank you very much, Matt.

My Verizon problem, which is still ongoing, appears to be a bit
different.  After some investigation, I've found that Verizon's SMTP
server, smtp.verizon.net, is rejecting my authentication credentials,
even though Verizon webmail accepts them.

(I confirmed this with Thunderbird connecting to smtp.verizon.net,
removing postfix from the equation. Then as a double-check, I used
telnet to port 465 of smtp.verizon.net, presented my credentials by
hand -- properly encrypted -- and it rejected the password.)

The weird part is:

(1) My credentials are correct, in that they authenticate correctly to
the Verizon webmail server... but not to smtp.verizon.net.

(2) Changing my Verizon password doesn't help. It updates for webmail,
but still gets rejected by smtp.verizon.net.

At this point, I can only guess that smtp.verizon.net is out of sync
with Verizon's other systems regarding my account. Next time I have a
few free hours to waste, I'll try to work it out with Verizon support
again.

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Dan Barrett
dbarrett at blazemonger.com