Thanks for the thoughts above. Answers are:
@idw Yes, K-9, Yahoo, and Gmail all function well now despite OAuth2, but shouldn't Pegasus do so too, now that I've used the Google password generator and no longer have any trouble retrieving Gmail emails into Pegasus?
@msetzerii Yes, perhaps the server is the issue.
When I successfully send BCCs from the Gmail app on my Android devices, I imagine they go via smtp.tools.sky.com, as that is the smtp server address which I have entered under Server Settings > Outgoing Settings.
When I successfully send BCCs from the Yahoo app on my Android devices, I imagine that email goes via the Yahoo server. (One can't enter a server in Yahoo for fetching or sending, and the server is not displayed anywhere in the settings.)
When I successfully send BCCs from the K-9 app on my Android devices, that email goes via smtp.tools.sky.com.
And when I unsuccessfully send BCCs from Pegasus Mail on my computer, that email goes smtp.tools.sky.com.
People with greater knowledge of the internet and its workings than myself may be able to tell me why BCCs can go via smtp.tools.sky.com from the Gmail and K-9 apps on my Android devices, but not from Pegasus Mail on my computer.
Re. the number of mails being sent, in my testing of all of the above I have sent to only one email address in the "To" box and to only one email address in the "BCC" box.
Re. the version of Pegasus I am using, it's the latest: version 4.8.
Thanks for the Yahoo link offering advice. With regard to the 554 SMTP error which I and @Joshua Ramsepm have received, that link says that 554 indicates one or more of the following. (P.S. Note the red font in the following lines is not intended. It appears to be due to a glitch in the "Reply" function of this website. Ignore the red font.)
You're trying to send a message to an invalid email address.
(But no, I am not doing that.)
Your message failed authentication checks against your sending domain's DMARC or DKIM policy.
(Perhaps. So what can we do?)
The message contains characteristics that Yahoo won't accept for policy reasons.
(The test messages contain just a few simple words, so this is not the reason.)
Other suspicious behavior which leads Yahoo to issue a permanent rejection for your SMTP connection.
(Perhaps. In which case it is Pegasus Mail which is acting "suspiciously" and we need to work out what that "suspicious behaviour" is.)
Your IP is listed by Spamhaus. Please check with https://www.spamhaus.org.
(Perhaps. However, other people on other devices in my home have the same IP address and they have no problem sending BCCs. But I will try to contact my server, Yahoo-Sky, tomorrow, and ask them if they can shed light on the problem.)
There is interesting information at https://senders.yahooinc.com/best-practices/
(Up until a year ago I used to send out emails via Pegasus Mail's Distribution List facility to a group of about 50 people, and it's possible that someone who no longer wanted to be on my Distribution List did not ask me to remove them but instead reported one of my Distribution List emails as Spam.)
Thanks for the thoughts above. Answers are:
@idw Yes, K-9, Yahoo, and Gmail all function well now despite OAuth2, but shouldn't Pegasus do so too, now that I've used the Google password generator and no longer have any trouble retrieving Gmail emails into Pegasus?
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@msetzerii Yes, perhaps the server is the issue.
When I successfully send BCCs from the Gmail app on my Android devices, I imagine they go via smtp.tools.sky.com, as that is the smtp server address which I have entered under Server Settings > Outgoing Settings.
When I successfully send BCCs from the Yahoo app on my Android devices, I imagine that email goes via the Yahoo server. (One can't enter a server in Yahoo for fetching or sending, and the server is not displayed anywhere in the settings.)
When I successfully send BCCs from the K-9 app on my Android devices, that email goes via smtp.tools.sky.com.
And when I unsuccessfully send BCCs from Pegasus Mail on my computer, that email goes smtp.tools.sky.com.
People with greater knowledge of the internet and its workings than myself may be able to tell me why BCCs can go via smtp.tools.sky.com from the Gmail and K-9 apps on my Android devices, but not from Pegasus Mail on my computer.
Re. the number of mails being sent, in my testing of all of the above I have sent to only one email address in the "To" box and to only one email address in the "BCC" box.
Re. the version of Pegasus I am using, it's the latest: version 4.8.
Thanks for the Yahoo link offering advice. With regard to the 554 SMTP error which I and @Joshua Ramsepm have received, that link says that 554 indicates one or more of the following. (P.S. Note the red font in the following lines is not intended. It appears to be due to a glitch in the "Reply" function of this website. Ignore the red font.)
You're trying to send a message to an invalid email address.
(But no, I am not doing that.)
Your message failed authentication checks against your sending domain's DMARC or DKIM policy.
(Perhaps. So what can we do?)
The message contains characteristics that Yahoo won't accept for policy reasons.
(The test messages contain just a few simple words, so this is not the reason.)
Other suspicious behavior which leads Yahoo to issue a permanent rejection for your SMTP connection.
(Perhaps. In which case it is Pegasus Mail which is acting "suspiciously" and we need to work out what that "suspicious behaviour" is.)
Your IP is listed by Spamhaus. Please check with https://www.spamhaus.org.
(Perhaps. However, other people on other devices in my home have the same IP address and they have no problem sending BCCs. But I will try to contact my server, Yahoo-Sky, tomorrow, and ask them if they can shed light on the problem.)
There is interesting information at https://senders.yahooinc.com/best-practices/
(Up until a year ago I used to send out emails via Pegasus Mail's Distribution List facility to a group of about 50 people, and it's possible that someone who no longer wanted to be on my Distribution List did not ask me to remove them but instead reported one of my Distribution List emails as Spam.)