On Wed, 31 Dec 2003, C. Corey Capel wrote: > Tracy wrote: > > You shouldn't need to add anything to the smtpauth.tab file to enable SMTP > > AUTH. All of my external clients use SMTP AUTH and my smtpauth.tab is empty. > > > > Have you verified that the corey user is in your mailusers.tab, and > > verified that the password is correct? You can verify the password using > > the userlist command in the Ctrl interface... > > Ok, I've gone to the setup you suggested. > > The corey user is in mailusers.tab, with the correct password, properly > encrypted. Using "userlist", I can verify the password I am giving xmail > is the correct one. > > My smtpauth.tab file is empty. The 'DefaultSmtpPerms' directive in > server.tab is set to 'MRVZ'. > > Here's where it gets strange. > > From my remote machine (Win2K AS), I can telnet to the server and send > email to both the local account and foreign domains. > > From the xmail machine itself (RedHat 9 over SSH), using both localhost > and agbs.us as a telnet target, I can only email to the local account > using SMTP commands. I get a '550 Relay denied' error when trying to > email to a foreign domain (I do _not_ get this error when telneting from > my remote machine). > > Using the Thunderbird email client on my remote machine, I get the > continual password popup box, even though I enter the correct password I > confirmed above. > > Yet if I stick the corey user in smtpauth.tab, with the correct > non-encrypted password and perms of 'MR', emailing to agbs.us and > foreign domain addresses from the email client works fine. However, > trying to email to a foreign domain address while telneting to the xmail > machine, from the xmail machine, still fails. > > Any ideas? I'm losing hair at an unprecedented pace. :P
I reiterate my question. What is the *exact* username you are using for SMTP auth? - Davide - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe xmail" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For general help: send the line "help" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
