------------ Original Message ------------
> Date: Friday, October 10, 2014 10:13:33 -0700
> From: Marty Rosenzweig <[email protected]>
> To: [email protected]
> Cc: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [k-9-mail] smtpauth.earthlink.net K-9 not accepting
>
> On Friday, October 10, 2014 10:39:08 AM UTC-6, Richard wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>> ------------ Original Message ------------
>> > Date: Friday, October 10, 2014 09:24:31 -0700
>> > From: Marty Rosenzweig <[email protected] <javascript:>>
>> > To: [email protected] <javascript:>
>> > Subject: [k-9-mail] smtpauth.earthlink.net K-9 not accepting
>> >
>> > Greetings,
>> > Trying to replace Android (4.1.2) email client which is now at
>> > 324 MB (sic!) with about 80 emails, no significant
>> > attachments. So K-9 (downloaded and installed ver. 5.00)
>> > comes highly recommended but, although the incoming POP3
>> > setup worked fine, the outgoing setup refuses to accept
>> > smtpauth.earthlink.net. As soon as the "dot" goes in after the
>> > smtpauth, the "Next" button greys out and no other setting
>> > below brings it back. This address works on all the other
>> > email clients I've used so the question is
>> > compatibility issue, version bug (I could download the previous
>> > certified version), my screw-up, or ???
>> >
>> > Thanks,
>> >
>> > Marty
>>
>> Did you type the whole hostname "smtpauth.earthlink.net" or stop
>> after "smtpauth." when the "next" greyed out? When I just tried
>> this, the "next" greys out with any hostname entry where you end
>> with a ".", (as that results in an invalid hostname), but when I
>> kept typing it ungreyed. The full earthlink hostname entered fine
>> with the "next" highlighted when I got done.
>>
>> You need to enter the FQDN (fully qualified domain name), not
>> just a short form, here.
>>
>>
>> - Richard
>>
>>
> It's working! So what I found was somehow a "space" was being
> inserted *after* the "smtp....net". I inadvertently backspaced it
> out when going to edit the adr and with the first "backspace"
> the "smtp...net" was *underlined* and "Next" was not greyed out.
> So all is good but I really don't know how that space got in
> there and I mean at least a few times! Using SwiftKey
> keyboard...maybe that's the problem...dunno.
>
> Thanks for responding and causing me to eventually to get it
> running!
>
> Marty
>
Great. The response to your earlier message that I was about to send
cautioned about spaces (before, embedded and at the end) of various
fields.
- Richard
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