Re: [Evolution] SMTP Authentication Problem

[Jeffrey Stedfast <fejj ximian com>]

please send me the *actual* log file.

my guess is your smtp server is broken wrt the rfc.

Jeff

On Fri, 2004-04-09 at 20:45, Jeff Umstead wrote:
> On Fri, 2004-04-09 at 19:30, Jeffrey Stedfast wrote:
> > On Fri, 2004-04-09 at 19:16, Jeff Umstead wrote:
> > > Hello,
> > >
> > > I've been having trouble sending mail to an SMTP server.  It fails when
> > > trying on authentication.  The proper authentication type for this mail
> > > server is cram-md5.  If I click on the "Check for supported types"
> > > button it connects to the server and returns cram-md5 as the supported
> > > type.  When I try to send mail I'm asked for the password which I enter
> > > and then it fails.
> > >
> > > I've noticed the the password dialog asks for the Please enter the SMTP
> > > password for thisusera something domainname com   I wonder if it is
> > > trying to pass this whole string at the username?
> >
> > no, it just uses the "thisuser" part.
> >
> > > I know that the SMTP server works (I set it up and it's used daily by
> > > our sales force).  If I use K-Mail it works perfectly.
> > >
> > > Any suggestions?
> >
> > CAMEL_VERBOSE_DEBIG=1 evolution-1.4 > camel.log 2>&1
>
>  I tried that and when I attempted to send mail the log file had
> sending : AUTH CRAM-MD5
> received: 330 P...............Pg== <middle of encoded string removed> 
> sending : AUTH CRAM-MD5
> received: 501 Error in AUTH response encoding.
>
> Look's to me like the mail server is not understanding the encoded
> string.  The SMTP server is David Harris's Mercury running on a Netware
> 6 server.  As I said works with other email clients I've tried.
>
> Jeff Umstead
>
> > Jeff
> >
> > > Thanks in advance.
>
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