Hi,I've edited this a couple of times. I quote my settings that actually work in Seamonkey and Opera. However, these settings were not quite identical.
Quite some time ago I had some difficulty with Seamonkey and getting it to work with "smtp.mail.yahoo.ca". As you may recall from that post of so long ago I had been trying to use yahoo to send mail. The problem I had was that I kept getting a message that the smtp server wasn't accepting the connection.
The message could not be sent because connecting to SMTP server smtp.mail.yahoo.ca failed. The server may be unavailable or is refusing connections. Please verify that your smtp server setting is correct and try again.
At the time of my original complaint I'd been using wireless and a local high speed provider and eventually gave up trying to make smtp.mail.yahoo.ca work properly in favour of just going with "mail.ispcompanyname.ca", and port 25. So, I thought it was over...The reason I want to use both my ISP and Yahoo is for reasons of privacy. My yahoo mail I use widely, but my private ISP mail address I seldom give out. In Seamonkey I have a default and yahoo smtp server set up. Under the Yahoo server settings I specify that I want it to use the yahoo smtp server.
The only thing is now that I'm back on dialup I keep running into my old nemesis the smtp error message. Any message I send with an attachment through my isp or yahoo ends up with the smtp server(s) refusing to accept the document.
This "smtp refusal error" appears to be a common problem with some mail clients like Seamonkey and Mozilla Thunderbird. I decided to give Opera a try. After downloading Opera 9.2.3 for Puppy, and setting it up I can now send and receive to both yahoo's smtp mail server and my own isp' smtp mail server.
Here are the settings that do work in Opera 9.2.3:Update: After some trial and error I found that the settings I was recommended to be using do not work well with Seamonkey. I've posted additional settings for Seamonkey that do work. They are not quite the same as those that work in Opera.
Note that in Opera when you first add a mail account it'll prompt you for some basic information, your name, your username, your password but you have to go further and manually edit this connection after saving it.
Go to Tools/Mail and Chat Accounts/ Add or select and edit / then the server tab/
The settings I use for my ISP netscape.ca are as follows:To receive mail enter "pop.mail.yahoo.ca"
Port "995"
Check Use TLS
Authentication "Auto (plaintext)
Username your username
Password your password
To send mail enter "smtp.mail.yahoo.ca"
Port "465"
Check Use TLS
Authentication choose "Auth Login" from the dropdown list
Username your username
Password your password
Now, having got this working in Opera I went through some trial and error to work out a combination of settings that do work in Seamonkey.To receive mail enter "mail.netscape.ca"
Port "110"
UNCHECK Use TLS
Authentication "Auto (plaintext)
Username your username
Password your password
To send mail enter "mail.netscape.ca"
Port "587"
UNCHECK Use TLS
Authentication choose "Auth Login" from the dropdown list
Username your username
Password your password
Update: I find Opera a little confusing to use compared to Seamonkey but it was easier to setup in that it worked flawlessly from the get go using the setting information obtained from both my ISP and Yahoo.ca.Update: Use the settings below for Seamonkey:
I got Seamonkey working, sending both text and files. However the settings are different than what I expected and they are not quite the same settings used in Opera:
Netscape.ca:
pop for netscape.ca: "mail.netscape.ca", port 110, use secure connection check the radio button for "TLS if available", leave unchecked use secure authentication
smtp for netscape.ca "mail.netscape.ca", port 587, check the box for use name and password, use secure connection: check the radio button for "no"
Yahoo.ca:
pop for Yahoo.ca: "pop.mail.yahoo.ca", port 110, use secure connection check the radio button for "TLS if available", leave unchecked use secure authentication
smtp for Yahoo.ca "smtp.mail.yahoo.ca", port 25, check the box for use name and password, use secure connection: check the radio button for "TLS if available"
I hope this helps others.
Yorkiesnorkie