Hmmm - It would appear that if I set the email clients in question to require SMTP authentication, and use the same username and password as for pop3 authentication, then everything works. I thought this was an either/or requirement, but now I have most users doing pop3 before smtp and some users using smtp authentication, and it works (so far).
Should I be concerned? This must be some funky ASSP thing ... but I am (pleasantly?) suprised that XMail allows it to verify even when it is not set to do smtp authentication (or at least I didn't think that it was!) Jeff Jeff Buehler wrote: >Hi all - > >This question may be a bit out of place, but someone here may have a >recommendation... > >Over the years, I have had an occasional problem with different mail >clietns choking on pop before smtp. Generally this has been the case on >Mac (OS 9) mail clients, which thankfully are gone from my user group now. > >Recently I put an anti-spam service (ASSP) on the same box and IP as >XMail which forwards mail to XMail after scanning it. This mecahnism >has worked with no problems when I had ASSP on a seperate IP and a >seperate box from XMail, and it works well now *except* that certain >mail clients no longer seem to be able to authenticate properly. >Specifically these are Mac OS X mailtool and Outlook 2003 that I am >aware of (Thunderbird works fine). > >This is obviosly some sort of interaction between ASSP and XMail, and so >the problem might exist on either side, but I was hoping someone on the >XMail side might have some ideas ...? > >Thanks! > >Jeff > >- >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] > > > > - 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]
