On 13 May 2022, g00r00 said the following...
g0> Let us know how Yahoo works out if you give it a shot. I know
g0> smtp2go.com was brought up a couple of times, but their free account is
g0> limited to 1000 emails per month (which is probably fine for most
g0> people).

Is there a place to set the "Send From" email address (and name)? Places like
gmail would populate/override this for you automatically but sending from
smtp2go.com emails are sent from "sysop@bbs.nrbbs.net" when one may prefer to
have "warpslide@nrbbs.net" as the sending address (in case someone wants a
reply) or perhaps "noreply@nrbbs.net" if they didn't.

===
From: "Northern Realms" <sysop@bbs.nrbbs.net>
To: "Warpslide" <user@example.domian>
Date: Sat, 14 May 2022 09:32:02
Subject: E-mail validation code for Northern Realms

Enter the following code when prompted by the BBS to validate e-mail:
SFTEUHNA
===

It's also worth noting that smtp2go & sendgrid require a custom domain name
to be able to work. It seems like AOL email still allows SMTP and may actually
work if we were able to set the "From" email address to the account name:

===
SMTP R:220 smtp.mail.yahoo.com ESMTP ready
SMTP S:EHLO bbs.nrbbs.net
SMTP R:250-hermes--canary-production-bf1-579c78cbb7-l4mcv Hello bbs.nrbbs.net
SMTP R:250-PIPELINING
SMTP R:250-ENHANCEDSTATUSCODES
SMTP R:250-8BITMIME
SMTP R:250-SIZE 41697280
SMTP R:250 STARTTLS
SMTP S:STARTTLS
SMTP R:220 2.0.0 Ready to start TLS
SMTP S:EHLO bbs.nrbbs.net
SMTP R:250-hermes--canary-production-bf1-579c78cbb7-l4mcv Hello bbs.nrbbs.net
SMTP R:250-PIPELINING
SMTP R:250-ENHANCEDSTATUSCODES
SMTP R:250-8BITMIME
SMTP R:250-SIZE 41697280
SMTP R:250 AUTH PLAIN LOGIN XOAUTH2 OAUTHBEARER
SMTP S:AUTH LOGIN
SMTP R:334 VXNlcm5hbWU6
SMTP S:bnJiYnNAYW9sLmNvbQ==
SMTP R:334 UGFzc3dvcmQ6
SMTP S:bmF4cGN2aWxsbWR5a2Fsbw==
SMTP R:235 2.7.0 Authentication successful
SMTP S:MAIL FROM:<sysop@bbs.nrbbs.net>
SMTP R:550 Request failed; Mailbox unavailable
===

Domain Name | bbs.nrbbs.net
Max BBS Nodes | 3
Start Hidden | No
Max Poll Threads | 0
Poll DL Limit | 0
Poll UL Limit | 0
Enable SMTP Send | Yes
SMTP Host | smtp.aol.com:587
SMTP IP Type | IPV4 Only
SMTP Login | nrbbs@aol.com
SMTP Password | ****************
SMTP Auth Type | Login
SMTP Use SSL/TLS | Yes

Jay

.... The worst thing about censorship is ����������.

On 14 May 2022, Jay Harris said the following...
JH> It seems like AOL email still allows SMTP and may actually work if we
JH> were able to set the "From" email address to the account name:

Confirmed. I setup Thunderbird and forced it to use basic authentication and I
was able to send messages about via SMTP:

mailnews.smtp: Sending message <b44ba687-2eb9-f38e-9585-c8a05baaec28@aol.com>
mailnews.smtp: Connecting to smtp://smtp.aol.com:465
mailnews.smtp: Connected
mailnews.smtp: S: 220 smtp.mail.yahoo.com ESMTP ready
mailnews.smtp: C: EHLO [10.0.1.124]
mailnews.smtp: S: 250-hermes--canary-production-bf1-579c78cbb7-s7xvc Hello
250-PIPELINING
250-ENHANCEDSTATUSCODES
250-8BITMIME
250-SIZE 41697280
250 AUTH PLAIN LOGIN XOAUTH2 OAUTHBEARER
mailnews.smtp: Possible auth methods: PLAIN,LOGIN
mailnews.smtp: Maximum allowed message size: 41697280
mailnews.smtp: Current auth method: PLAIN
mailnews.smtp: Authentication via AUTH PLAIN
mailnews.smtp: C: Logging suppressed (it probably contained auth information)
mailnews.smtp: S: 235 2.7.0 Authentication successful
mailnews.smtp: Authentication successful.
mailnews.smtp: C: MAIL FROM:<nrbbs@aol.com> BODY=8BITMIME SIZE=419
mailnews.smtp: S: 250 2.1.0 Sender <nrbbs@aol.com> OK
mailnews.smtp: MAIL FROM successful, proceeding with 1 recipients
[...]

Thunderbird by default wanted to use OAuth2 to log in which brings up a
separate webpage where you would log in with your username, password and
presumably 2FA/MFA if you had that enabled.

So it would appear if we could set the From email address then AOL & Yahoo (and
sendgrid) would work, but longer term it appears that OAuth2 would need to be
implemented which would also allow GMail to be used again:

https://developers.google.com/gmail/imap/xoauth2-protocol

Jay

.... I knew I was an unwanted baby. One of my bath toys were a toaster.

On 14 May 2022, Jay Harris said the following...
JH> On 13 May 2022, g00r00 said the following...
JH>
JH> g0> Let us know how Yahoo works out if you give it a shot. I know
JH> g0> smtp2go.com was brought up a couple of times, but their free account
JH> g0> limited to 1000 emails per month (which is probably fine for most
JH> g0> people).
JH>
JH> Is there a place to set the "Send From" email address (and name)?
JH> Places like gmail would populate/override this for you automatically but
JH> sending from smtp2go.com emails are sent from "sysop@bbs.nrbbs.net" when
JH> one may prefer to have "warpslide@nrbbs.net" as the sending address (in
JH> case someone wants a reply) or perhaps "noreply@nrbbs.net" if they
JH> didn't.
JH>
JH> ===
JH> From: "Northern Realms" <sysop@bbs.nrbbs.net>
JH> To: "Warpslide" <user@example.domian>
JH> Date: Sat, 14 May 2022 09:32:02
JH> Subject: E-mail validation code for Northern Realms
JH>
JH> Enter the following code when prompted by the BBS to validate e-mail:
JH> SFTEUHNA
JH> ===
JH>
JH> It's also worth noting that smtp2go & sendgrid require a custom domain
JH> name to be able to work. It seems like AOL email still allows SMTP and
JH> may actually work if we were able to set the "From" email address to the
JH> account name:
JH>
JH> ===
JH> SMTP R:220 smtp.mail.yahoo.com ESMTP ready
JH> SMTP S:EHLO bbs.nrbbs.net
JH> SMTP R:250-hermes--canary-production-bf1-579c78cbb7-l4mcv Hello
JH> bbs.nrbbs.net SMTP R:250-PIPELINING
JH> SMTP R:250-ENHANCEDSTATUSCODES
JH> SMTP R:250-8BITMIME
JH> SMTP R:250-SIZE 41697280
JH> SMTP R:250 STARTTLS
JH> SMTP S:STARTTLS
JH> SMTP R:220 2.0.0 Ready to start TLS
JH> SMTP S:EHLO bbs.nrbbs.net
JH> SMTP R:250-hermes--canary-production-bf1-579c78cbb7-l4mcv Hello
JH> bbs.nrbbs.net SMTP R:250-PIPELINING
JH> SMTP R:250-ENHANCEDSTATUSCODES
JH> SMTP R:250-8BITMIME
JH> SMTP R:250-SIZE 41697280
JH> SMTP R:250 AUTH PLAIN LOGIN XOAUTH2 OAUTHBEARER
JH> SMTP S:AUTH LOGIN
JH> SMTP R:334 VXNlcm5hbWU6
JH> SMTP S:bnJiYnNAYW9sLmNvbQ==
JH> SMTP R:334 UGFzc3dvcmQ6
JH> SMTP S:bmF4cGN2aWxsbWR5a2Fsbw==
JH> SMTP R:235 2.7.0 Authentication successful
JH> SMTP S:MAIL FROM:<sysop@bbs.nrbbs.net>
JH> SMTP R:550 Request failed; Mailbox unavailable
JH> ===
JH>
JH>
JH> Domain Name | bbs.nrbbs.net
JH> Max BBS Nodes | 3
JH> Start Hidden | No
JH> Max Poll Threads | 0
JH> Poll DL Limit | 0
JH> Poll UL Limit | 0
JH> Enable SMTP Send | Yes
JH> SMTP Host | smtp.aol.com:587
JH> SMTP IP Type | IPV4 Only
JH> SMTP Login | nrbbs@aol.com
JH> SMTP Password | ****************
JH> SMTP Auth Type | Login
JH> SMTP Use SSL/TLS | Yes
JH>
JH>
JH>
JH> Jay
JH>
JH> ... The worst thing about censorship is ����������.
JH>
JH> --- Mystic BBS v1.12 A48 2022/04/26 (Raspberry Pi/32)
JH> * Origin: Northern Realms (1:229/664)

I am using the same smtp mail settings how did you get it to connect? Did you
set the env var for Python, put the pyton in the windows system directory? or
put the dll in the c:\mystic directory?