On Thursday 07 October 2004 10:53 am, Brandon Rife wrote: > Hi, > > Is anyone using using Kmail to send mail through smtp.comcast.net? > I'm trying out KMail in lieu of Thunderbird because I like the KDE > integration but I am unable to send email. The error is: > > Authentication failed. > Most likely the password is wrong. > The server responded: "Authentication failure" > > I've re-entered the password 10 times and I'm sure that it, as well as > the user id, is correct and I do know that smtp.comcast.net requires > authentication. The same user id, password works fine with pop3 - I > have no problem fetching mail using KMail. I'm probably mindlessly > missing something.... > > Thanks! > Brandon
I finally found a how-to. I believe the problem was that I wasn't specifying CRAM-MD5 as the autentication method.
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