Hi Paul, On 3 Dec 2004 at 17:27, Paul Holliman spoke, thus:
> I'd very much appreciate the chance just to check that my machine is > actually working on another smtp server while I wait for the fix that Dean > has mentioned on here. What do I need to do as far as you are concerned to > try this? Many thanks for your kind offer! Always a pleasure to be of help. Unfortunately, according to Dean in a discussion we had on this issue, it would seem the problem will probably apply to my mail service as it does to your existing one. Since I don't yet know where the actual error is, except as explained below, I can't say whether you will enjoy success. However, there is nothing to stop you from trying it. If you contact me off-list with a username and password for your SMTP submission privilege, I will set up an account so you can then point your BrailleNote's SMTP server setting to yamta.org and set username and password as authentication credentials. Of course, this may be a concern for you in that your BrailleNote will not let you authenticate with different usernames and passwords for your POP3 and SMTP services, meaning that you will need to give me your ISP POP3 username and password, so though I promise confidentiality as a good and honest postmaster you may want to think carefully about it. For those curious, the problem stems, it seems, from the BrailleNote PK's not sending angle brackets in the email addresses following the MAIL and RCPT commands. RFC 2821 makes this a requirement, so clearly the BrailleNote must be fixed in this regard. On the positive front, the vast majority of mail systems are still running either Sendmail or Exim, both of which have been toned to generations of use and which are consequently not all bothered about that one common breakage in early SMTP clients either by design or configuration, so the vast majority of users will not see this one particular glitch. However, with respect to the exact cause of the difficulty, it would be good to get some hands-on session logging information to help me possibly propose a workaround, so if someone is willing to send a test message through my system as a demonstration using their PK and give me moral permission to examine that session, it could prove useful. Cheers, Sabahattin -- If an email tells you to forward it to all your friends, please temporarily forget that I am your friend. Sabahattin Gucukoglu Phone: +44 20 88008915 Mobile: +44 7986 053399 http://www.sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/ Email/MSN: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Skype: SabahattinGucukoglu (requires authorisation, add me to your list first) SpeakFreely: sabahattin-gucukoglu.com (Please use CELP compression if your processor allows)
