Re: Authentication failed

[Geoffrey Leach <geoff hughes net>]

Albrecht,

Thanks. You are correct, of course. The problem was that I was assuming 
the authentication details came from sendmail. But in this case, the 
details are from balsa.

Interestingly, I figured this out as a result of someone slapping my 
hand for posting the password to the list. It was the old password, 
fortunately.

Regards


On 11/11/2012 07:14:35 AM, you wrote:
> Hi Geoff:
> 
> Am 11.11.12 00:16 schrieb(en) geoff hughes net:
> > I'm having difficulty sending mail from my Linux (Fedora 17) box 
> via
> my ISP. I can send mail from my ISP's web mail interface (witness
> this) but not from Balsa on the Fedora box.  Here's the debug
> output. Can someone please enlighten me as to where the
> "Authentication failed" is being generated?
> 
> RFC 4954 (<http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4954>) defines error code 
> 535
> as
> 
> <quote>
>     535 5.7.8  Authentication credentials invalid
> 
>     This response to the AUTH command indicates that the
> authentication failed due to invalid or insufficient authentication
> credentials.
> </quote>
> 
> IOW, either the user name or the password (or the combination of 
> them)
> are not accepted by the server.
> 
> > &nbsp; Thanks.<br><br>Send_Message: 139893728616880, 1, Connected 
> to
> MTA<br>S: 220 smtp.b.hostedemail.com ESMTP<br>C: EHLO
> puget.mtranch.com<br>S: 250-omf08.b.hostedemail.com<br>250-
> PIPELINING<br>250-SIZE
> 36700160<br>250-ETRN<br>250-AUTH PLAIN LOGIN<br>250-AUTH=PLAIN
> LOGIN<br>250-ENHANCEDSTATUSCODES<br>250-8BITMIME<br>250 DSN<br>C: 
> AUTH
> (details hidden)<br>S: 535 5.7.8 Error: authentication failed:
> Authentication failed
> 
> Here, a "AUTH PLAIN" (see <http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4616>)
> authentication did apparently fail...
> 
> > C: AUTH LOGIN xxxxxx<br>S: 334 yyyyy<br>C:
> zzzz<br>S: 535 5.7.8 Error: authentication failed: <br>
> 
> ... and the "AUTH LOGIN" failed, too.
> 
> *WARNING* - note that the login strings above contain your cleartext
> base64 encoded authentication tokens.  Thus, change them ASAP!!!!
> 
> Best, Albrecht.