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<p dir="auto">Very simple fix: the password for the SMTP server was wrong.</p>
<p dir="auto">I had updated the password when Yahoo complained while fetching IMAP mail, but I didn’t remember that I had to change the SMTP pw as well. </p>
<p dir="auto">All works again.</p>
<p dir="auto">Thanks for “listening”.</p>
<p dir="auto">Dave</p>
<p dir="auto">On 8 Apr 2020, at 13:07, Dave C wrote:</p>
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<p dir="auto">I’m getting an error when trying to send a pretty vanilla message through my Yahoo account:</p>
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<p dir="auto">Unexpected return code 535 (expected 235):<br>
“5.7.0 (#AUTH005) Too many bad auth attempts.”)</p>
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<p dir="auto">The error I usually see if the Yahoo server is being pissy is the “Wrong password… please re-enter” pop-up. This is the first time I’ve see the 535 message.</p>
<p dir="auto">Is this log file option available in a MailMate menu? Or is this in MacOS’ Console? I looked in Console and didn’t see any log files named MailMate.</p>
<p dir="auto">Where is this log file? How to open it?</p>
<p dir="auto">I went to Yahoo’s web interface and all seems OK there.</p>
<p dir="auto">Thanks,<br>
Dave</p>
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