Yes, the email client (in this case Thunderbird and numerous other external email clients) must be doing pop before smtp since I have never enabled true SMTP authentication (even though I would like to, but that is another story), and none of my testing has included setting password authentication for SMTP.
The part that suprised me is that I am not set up to do real SMTP authentication (only pop before), but when going through the ASSP proxy running on the same system as XMail, SMTP authentication not only works with at least some email clietns but is actually required for some. Perhaps this is expected behavior, but I thought it was an either/or sort of thing. So, ASSP -> Xmail with pop before SMTP works with Thunderbird (at least), but in Outlook 2003 and Mac OS X Mailtool (at least) SMTP authentication is required for proper authentication. This was not the case when ASSP was on a seperate IP and a seperate platform - with that config, pop before SMTP worked for all these email clients. Also this was not the case when ASSP was not in the picture (so obviously it has something to do with ASSP -> XMail). Jeff Davide Libenzi wrote: >On Tue, 5 Jul 2005, Jeff Buehler wrote: > > > >>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). >> >> > >If you use *real* SMTP authentication, then you won't need the POP3 before >SMTP thing. In order for POP3 before SMTP to work, you need you mail >clients to actually try a POP3 session before the SMTP session (with the >account doing the POP3 session being the *same* as the MAIL FROM: <> of >the SMTP session). Is your email client doing so? > > >- 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] > > > > - 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]