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I haven't been able to send e-mails when connected to T-Mobile for, oh, a year at least? My e-mail provider (Rackspace) only supports STARTTLS and SSL/TLS, and T-Mobile appears to break the authentication no matter which I choose. I can receive e-mail, but not send it on 465 or 993. As soon as I get home and switch to wifi, everything in my outbox gets sent. It's mighty annoying.


I wasted a bit of time yesterday trying to get a .NET application to send email using SSL/TLS via Rackspace.

It turns out that .NET System.Net.Mail doesn't support implicit SSL, only explicit SSL.

You'd think that Microsoft would have solved that by now. The reasoning:

   This is not considered a bug, it’s a 
   feature request. There are two types of 
   SSL authentication for SMTP, and we only
   support one (by design) – Explicit SSL
http://www.systemnetmail.com/faq/5.3.aspx


993 is for IMAP, not SMTP. Try 587.


My mistake, just a typo. The app fills in the port itself depending on what authentication mode is chosen. It's 465/587.




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