On 25-Jun-2001 Leif Mortenson wrote:
> Riaz :) wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > What exactly is happening? I was not able to send mail using Netscape
> 4.77
> > until I entered a username and password.
>
> I had read your messages but thought that this was a different problem.
> On Netscape 6, I get the following error message: (It is translated
> from Japanese, so not sure if it is the exact message as english version)
>
> ---
> Encountered an error during transmission of the mail. The SMTP server
> responded with the following:
> mydomain.com
> VRFY
> ETRN
> 8BITMIME
> PIPELINING
> AUTH LOGIN PLAIN CRAM-MD5
> Please contact the mail administrator.
> ---
>
> This message wasn't helpful. I went to another machine and tried this
> with Netscape 4.75 and get the following, much more useful message.
> (Also translated)
>
> ---
> The mail server can not be used because a user name was not specified.
> Please try again after specifying a user name.
> ---
>
> From Riaz's thread last week "Netscape 4.77 relay", the only solution
> to this is to modify the source and do a build myself?
>
> (In a humble newcomer voice) I am not sure what the difference between
> the responses "AUTH LOGIN PLAIN RSA-AUTH" and "AUTH LOGIN CRAM-MD5 PLAIN
> RSA-AUTH" are, however Netscape is still a widely used browser, lord
> knows it has plenty of other bugs in it. We've all worked around plenty
> of them. If patching the code is the only way to get Netscape users up
> and running with XMail, it seems worth making the fix to make it that
> much easier for new users to get up and running. <:-)
I'll make auth type configurable in server.tab, happy ? :)
- Davide
