MArtin wrote:
> Mike Easter

>> There's an article about exim and smtp.gmail.com that claims to be last
>> edited 2019 Jul, but all its references are much much older
>>
> They gave me a happily working configuration - until it stopped
> working.
>
> I do like your references troubleshooting suggestion of nuke the
> install and start all over again. For completeness it should probably
> have a more drastic suggestion involving physical violence for when it
> still doesn't work.
>
Ha.

When I'm trying to engage a server 'manually', depending on the
protocol, I use a 'telnet-like' client and the nntp or smtp or imap
exchanges.

Since this involves TLS, I would use openssl which uses the various
ssl/tls protocols.

https://mihail.stoynov.com/2014/10/29/talk-smtp-to-gmail-with-openssl-s_client/
  Talk smtp to gmail with openssl s_client


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Mike Easter

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