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) [email protected]: > > 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. > > > 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. _______________________________________________ balsa-list mailing list [email protected] https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/balsa-list
