Using Free Email Services for Setup of Turns

[Lothian]

Can a player use Yahoo, Hotmail or another free email service provider to setup their turns?

If its possible, what is the POP and SMTP for say Yahoo? and are there any extra setup options that you would need to change on the free email service provider side to allow yahoo/hotmail to work. i.e. Ports ect...

[Nellwyn]

Can a player use Yahoo, Hotmail or another free email service provider to setup their turns?

If its possible, what is the POP and SMTP for say Yahoo? and are there any extra setup options that you would need to change on the free email service provider side to allow yahoo/hotmail to work. i.e. Ports ect...

Unfortunately, the client is not able to handle cryptographic protocols like SSL or TLS, thus, it`s not possible to use
yahoo.co.uk. Yahoo requires at least SSL for SMTP and POP.

A friend of mine was a great help to me with this. He registered his own domain with plenty of free email addresses and
I`m using one of these now

So, sorry, I don't know which email service provider is best to use for you.

regards,
Lilian

[daxb]

It is possible and recommended to use an own email address. Normaly free email services work fine (set the tot email address to the white list). How to do look at tot guide/pdf/... For some email services the smtp and pop settings will add automatically, else you have set it yourselfe. Google for nameofyouremailprovider smtp pop3 if you don`t know it.

[Taurik]

As long as the service allows unencrypted SMTP and POP connections, it can be used for Tales of Tamar.

GMail does not work, because it requires encryption.

As far as I can tell, Hotmail only offers POP access to Plus accounts, which presumably are not free.

I don't know about Yahoo, but if they require encryption, too, they cannot be used.

[Wolfen]

Can anybody list some of the free email providers please. Lothian still want to use ToT with email settings.

[daxb]

I cannot provide a list but some free email services support encryption and unencryption via different server for POP3/SMTP.

[Wolfen]

Well, please remember to send him also the name of the pop and smtp server. Thx for your powerplay!

[daxb]

I think he need some english email services and I know only german ones. But maybe this would help in finding one:

http://www.google.com/search?q=server+pop3+smtp

Here on the first site are several lists of free email provider with server info.

[Lothian]

Thanks everyone for your help so far. I'm going to keep hunting to find what I can find.

I have some ideas I'm going to try. Hopefully we'll find something that works.

Lothian

[Angelos]

Hopefully we'll find something that works.

You have a private message.

[Lothian]

Angelos, I sent you a private message back
Lothian

[Lothian]

Posted by Jens. See below


I have found a way to use GoogleMail (and probably other encrypted mail services) with "Tales of Tamar".

These instructions refer to Windows XP. It should work similarly under Vista.

First, we need the program STunnel.

Download the latest version from http://www.stunnel.org/download/binaries.html and install it (to C:\Program Files\stunnel\ for example). Then we need the two DLLs libeay32.dll and libssl32.dll from http://www.stunnel.org/download/stunnel ... 9.7f-zlib/ as well as this file http://www.stunnel.org/download/stunnel ... tunnel.pem

These three files have to be copied to the directory we just installed the program to (C:\Program Files\stunnel\).

In the start menu, you will find a new entry called stunnel. First run Edit stunnel.conf replace the contents with this:

Code:

; Stunnel configuration file for Tales of Tamar
; Jens Neubauer 2007

; Certificate/key is needed in server mode and optional in client mode
cert = stunnel.pem
;key = stunnel.pem

; Some performance tunings
socket = l:TCP_NODELAY=1
socket = r:TCP_NODELAY=1


; Some debugging stuff useful for troubleshooting
;debug = 7
;output = stunnel.log

; Use it for client mode
client = yes

; Service-level configuration

[pop3s]
accept = 110
connect = pop.gmail.com:995

[ssmtp]
accept = 25
connect = smtp.gmail.com:465




This example uses Google Mail. Replace the servers with your own if you have another provider.


Now install the service (Service install) and then run it (Service start).
(If you want, you can just run it (via Run stunnel), but you'll have to remember to do that again after each reboot.)

(If you have a firewall running, you need to permit stunnel to connect to the Internet, of course.)

Now run ToT. In the option screen, enter your data as usual, just enter localhost instead of the pop3 and smtp server. ToT will warn us that the email address doesn't match the server name, which we will ignore.

And that's it. From now on, ToT will connect to Gmail to send and receive mail. Good luck!

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