On Tue, 5 Jul 2005, Jeff Buehler wrote: > > 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).
Then remove ASSP (whatever it is) :=) - 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]
