[NTLK] Newton City email - dead ? (was Re: MBED TLS)

[Tom]

On Friday, 31 October 2025 22:51:25 Greenwich Mean Time Marisa Giancarla via NewtonTalk wrote:
> > * Forums showed no activity for months
> Can't do anything about user activity :) I get lots of viewers and 
> downloaders, so I guess people just aren't interested in posting for 
> some reason. There was actvity in the community area though.
> > All of which made me sceptical of sending money ;-)
> 
> Understandable :)

OK, so I did some basic testing and it looks like IMAP and SMTP accept username and password over plain text fine, so the older NewtonTalk thread is wrong, and NewtonCity *should* work fine from a Newton e.g. With MailV - if anyone wants to try that.

# telnet newtoncity.org imap
Trying 74.207.246.231...
Connected to newtoncity.org.
Escape character is '^]'.
* OK [CAPABILITY ....
sdfsdf LOGIN test ing
sdfsdf BAD Login incorrect

# telnet newtoncity.org smtp
Trying 74.207.246.231...
Connected to newtoncity.org.
Escape character is '^]'.
220 newtoncity.org ESMTP Citadel server ready.
EHLO falkensweb.com
250-Hello falkensweb.com (cupboard.falkensweb.com [82.68.169.134])
....
AUTH PLAIN XDB0ZXN0X3VzZXJAd29zaHViLmNvbVwwKW5n
504 Authentication failed.


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Tom
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