Hi Peter,

Thank you for your reply.

I think it would be good if there were a way to get Growl to work with
SMTP servers not requiring authentication.


Here is the complete output to the Console:

5/07/11 10:37:04 AM     [0x0-0x13ea3e9].com.Growl.GrowlHelperApp[13130]
Traceback (most recent call last):
5/07/11 10:37:04 AM     [0x0-0x13ea3e9].com.Growl.GrowlHelperApp[13130]
File "/Library/PreferencePanes/Growl.prefPane/Contents/Resources/
GrowlHelperApp.app/Contents/PlugIns/MailMe.growlView/Contents/
Resources/simple-mailer.py", line 55, in <module>
5/07/11 10:37:04 AM
[0x0-0x13ea3e9].com.Growl.GrowlHelperApp[13130]
smtp.login(username, password)
5/07/11 10:37:04 AM     [0x0-0x13ea3e9].com.Growl.GrowlHelperApp[13130]
File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.6/lib/
python2.6/smtplib.py", line 589, in login
5/07/11 10:37:04 AM     [0x0-0x13ea3e9].com.Growl.GrowlHelperApp[13130]
smtplib.SMTPAuthenticationError: (334, 'UGFzc3dvcmQ6')
5/07/11 10:37:04 AM     GrowlHelperApp[13130]   (MailMe) WARNING: Could not
send message using simple-mailer; it returned exit status 1.
5/07/11 10:37:04 AM     GrowlHelperApp[13130]   (MailMe) WARNING: Could not
send email message "Preview" to address [email protected]
5/07/11 10:37:04 AM     GrowlHelperApp[13130]   (MailMe) description of
notification:
This is a preview of the MailMe display



On Jul 5, 10:29 am, Peter Hosey <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Jul 4, 2011, at 19:16:34, Daniel M wrote:
>
> > Using Growl version: 1.2.2 and trying to use MailMe
>
> > I am getting error:
> > MailMe: No Suitable SMTP Account Found error message.
>
> > I have definitely configured an SMTP account in Mail and restarted Growl, 
> > but it would appear that Growl does not check mail for SMTP servers, but 
> > checks in Keychain instead.
>
> If by “check mail” you mean “check Mail's Preferences”, that's exactly what 
> it does: It gets the server name and username from Mail's Preferences. It 
> gets the password from the Keychain because that's where Mail puts it.
>
> > This is problematic when using an SMTP server that does not use 
> > authentication.
>
> > Is there any way to get Growl to use my mail server without authentication?
>
> Nope.
>
> > Secondly, I have set up an authenticated mail server, but get another error 
> > message:
> > smtplib.SMTPAuthenticationError
>
> > The username/password specified in Mail is definitely correct and uses 
> > Password Authentication - mail sends messages without any problem.  I have 
> > tried both SSL / non-SSL, both work in Mail - neither work in growl.
>
> > Any reason why this may be happening?
>
> I have no idea. Does it say anything besides 
> “smtplib.SMTPAuthenticationError”?
>
> > Lastly, a feature request - it would be great to have the option the 
> > configure SMTP servers, etc right there in the Growl Preference pane - 
> > especially for servers where typically no email account would be configured 
> > in the Mail application.
>
> We've been meaning to do this for some time; I've just filed a ticket for it:
>
>        http://code.google.com/p/growl/issues/detail?id=220

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