On Monday 13 June 2005 16:57, Gustin Johnson wrote: > > When I try to send mail, I get the following error message from KMail: > > > > Your SMTP server claims to support TLS, but negotiation was unsuccessful. > > This is an encryption problem which happens before authentication. > > > If I disable TLS and try just plain authentication, I receive a message > > indicating "Your SMTP server does not support PLAIN." > > This is an authentication problem. The error seems to indicate that > SMTP is not configured for PLAIN text authentication. If you are using > username and password auth for your smtp server then you need to enable > PLAIN (ie plain text) in your mail server (MTA). This should not be a > security problem as long as TLS is working, which encrypts the plain > text username and password. > > How were you authenticating SMTP before? Did users have local accounts > (eg /etc/passwd) or did you backend into SQL or LDAP?
Thanks Gustin. I would prefer to keep the encryption in place, so guess I should be focusing on the encryption problem. My configuration matches the one suggested on this guide: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/qmail-howto.xml - up to, but not including setting up Horde. I decided to try some different webmail clients and settled on E-Groupware. But the problem is occuring before this... I'm wondering if maybe openssl got updated on me without me noticing, or courierauth. If it helps, I re-did the steps indicated in the link above a couple of times, and checked all the settings, but that still didn't help out. Um... I'm not sure which config files are pertinent for encryption/authentication. I'll take a look at what I have and send you the pertinent files off list. Let me know if there's any particular file you'd like to see. Shawn _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
