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    From Rob Pyott@21:1/5 to All on Sat Feb 12 12:41:55 2022
    Hello, I get the error "Need Mail Command" when I try to send an email.

    This is the error output. Welcome any suggestions, thanks!

    IMAP 15:34:49 2/12 mm_log babble: Trying IP address [17.42.251.56]
    IMAP DEBUG 15:34:49 2/12: * OK [CAPABILITY XAPPLEPUSHSERVICE IMAP4 IMAP4rev1 SASL-IR AUTH=ATOKEN AUTH=PLAIN] (2208B18-b8
    6c2423bb42) st43p00im-tygg09061601.me.com
    IMAP DEBUG 15:34:49 2/12: 00000000 AUTHENTICATE PLAIN
    mm_login_work trial=0 user=pyott service=imap port=993
    mm_login: using non-default port=:993
    mm_login: host=[17.42.251.56]:993
    mm_login: orighost=imap.mail.me.com:993
    imap_get_passwd: checking user=pyott alt=1 host=[17.42.251.56]:993, imap.mail.me.com:993
    imap_get_passwd: no match
    read_passfile

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  • From Eduardo Chappa@21:1/5 to Rob Pyott on Sat Feb 12 22:30:53 2022
    On Sat, 12 Feb 2022, Rob Pyott wrote:

    Hello, I get the error "Need Mail Command" when I try to send an email.

    Dear Rob,

    the output you shared with us was the connection to the imap server. We
    need the output of the connection to the SMTP server. Please do as
    follows:

    1) Press M S C and make sure that

    [X] Enable Verbose SMTP Posting

    is enabled.

    2) Repeat the problem

    3) Go to the main screen and press "J D 9" to set the debug to level 9,
    and in the debug look for the string "EHLO" to find the debug relevant to
    the SMTP connection. Do not hesitate to send the output so we can figure
    out what happened (maybe authentication failed?)

    --
    Eduardo
    https://tinyurl.com/yc377wlh (web)
    http://repo.or.cz/alpine.git (Git)

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  • From Rob Pyott@21:1/5 to Eduardo Chappa on Sun Feb 13 13:08:33 2022
    On Sunday, February 13, 2022 at 12:30:56 AM UTC-5, Eduardo Chappa wrote:
    On Sat, 12 Feb 2022, Rob Pyott wrote:

    Hello, I get the error "Need Mail Command" when I try to send an email.
    Dear Rob,

    the output you shared with us was the connection to the imap server. We
    need the output of the connection to the SMTP server. Please do as
    follows:

    1) Press M S C and make sure that

    [X] Enable Verbose SMTP Posting

    is enabled.

    2) Repeat the problem

    3) Go to the main screen and press "J D 9" to set the debug to level 9,
    and in the debug look for the string "EHLO" to find the debug relevant to
    the SMTP connection. Do not hesitate to send the output so we can figure
    out what happened (maybe authentication failed?)

    --
    Eduardo
    https://tinyurl.com/yc377wlh (web)
    http://repo.or.cz/alpine.git (Git)
    SOLVED. I found the fix! Alpine was using my Linux username for my "From" address. I thought I had fixed that by adding a Role but I must have made a mistake, and noticed the bad email addresss in the EHLO string. Seems good now! Many thanks!! Rob

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