On Thu, 23 May 2024 22:58:27 -0700 Lew Wolfgang wrote:

Hi Folks,

I'm having issues with Thunderbird on Leap 15.5 when connecting to a smtp server.  TB returns a rather unhelpful error message.  Is there any way to turn on a debug mode in TB?  I unfortunately don't have access to the logs on the server side.  There's always tcpump and wireshark, but there must be an easier way.

Regards, Lew

Hi Lew, Have you seen this? https://software.opensuse.org/package/swaks?locale=en regards, Carl

On Thu, 23 May 2024 22:58:27 -0700 Lew Wolfgang wrote:

Hi Folks,

I'm having issues with Thunderbird on Leap 15.5 when connecting to a smtp server.  TB returns a rather unhelpful error message.  Is there any way to turn on a debug mode in TB?  I unfortunately don't have access to the logs on the server side.  There's always tcpump and wireshark, but there must be an easier way.

Regards, Lew

Sorry, Lew, I just realized there's no 15.5 package available for swaks. There are lots of easy cli mail server connectivity testing examples available online using telnet and openssh, i.e. plain text: $ telnet smtp.server.tld 25 secure: $ openssl s_client -starttls smtp -crlf -connect smtp.server.tld:25 -starttls protocol send the protocol-specific message(s) to switch to TLS for communication. -crlf this option translates a line feed from the terminal into CR+LF as required by some servers. regards, Carl