1/ ARGHGGHGGHGH I've been reconfiguring email stuff, and updating like 15 year old .el emacs files, and I just realized that the reason crap was broken for the last 90 minutes was >>>
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2/ that I had a password that ended with three exclamation points, and the POP string that the password was embedded in uses '!' to delimit password from '@' which is a secondary delimiter before the server name
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3/ pop://user+http://domain.com :NotTheRealPassword!!!@mail.domain.com looks a lot like pop://user+http://domain.com :NotTheRealPassword!!!!@mail.domain.com FML
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4/ from here on out, I'm using "password" as my username, and "password" as my password
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5/ but until I get around to making that change, I guess I'll just document this in a comment, and also in my notes files
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6/ Hidden story: the reason the SPF record I'd set up at http://tjic.com wasn't helping my email get through had something to do with the fact that I wasn't connecting to the SMTP server there, but my ISP's instead for some reason Years of emails getting lost, explained
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