Tried that. Right now nothing is checked on the SMTP security page except
Relay mail for Addresses. Also no services are running except SMTP, POP and
Logging.
Regards,
Ron Schaefer
Interon Internet Solutions
http://www.interon1.com
949.458.8602
----- Original Message -----
From: David Gregg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, May 25, 2000 10:22 AM
Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] 6.03 SMTP AUTH Errors
> What happens if you check the box 'disable smtp auth reporting'? Does it
> make any difference in the time between failures?
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ron Schaefer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Date: Thursday, May 25, 2000 9:56 AM
> Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] 6.03 SMTP AUTH Errors
>
>
> Follow-up... Received a message from IPSWITCH support that it may be my
> registry is too large since IMAIL users are stored there and they
suggested
> to go to External Database for users. I don't think that is it because
> Microsoft has a limit of 15,000 NT users in the registry and IPSWITCH has
> stated in the past that is not a limit for IMAIL
>
> Comments?
>
> Regards,
> Ron Schaefer
>
> Interon Internet Solutions
> http://www.interon1.com
> 949.458.8602
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Ron Schaefer
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Thursday, May 25, 2000 9:27 AM
> Subject: [IMail Forum] 6.03 SMTP AUTH Errors
>
>
> Problem: Clients using Outlook or Outlook express with SMTP
Authentication
> are occasionally not being authenticated properly. When they attempt to
> send mail they will be prompted for user name and password. Clicking OK
> (without changing the username or password) anywhere from 4 to 10 times
> will normally send the mail. Occasionally I need to stop and restart the
> SMTP service. The problem is very erratic, it may work fine for 30
minutes
> and then fail every 2 to 5 minutes.
>
> There have been no changes to the server sw or config or IMail config
and
> no major increase in users or traffic. Although the problem seems to
happen
> more often during heavy traffic periods.
>
> IPSWITCH "Solution": I have spoken with Tanya at IPSWITCH support
> extensively yesterday and today. She has been able to recreate the
problem
> by setting up a user on my server and attempting to send mail using SMTP
> AUTH. Even so she has supplied no help except that it MAY BE A LIMITATION
> OF IMAIL with the number of users that can authenticate at one time and
she
> has suggested to open my server up to relay mail for all users. This is
not
> a good solution since that would open me to spammers and it would be near
> impossible to contact all of my users to have them turn off SMTP AUTH. I
> also believe this could not be the problem since I only have 60 domains
with
> an average of 5 users each, which is well below what IPSWITCH claims the
> product to handle and the traffic or users did not increase at the time
this
> started happening.
>
> History: Currently running 6.03 with the latest patches. Was running
5.08
> when the problem started on Tuesday and installed the upgrade that night
> with no improvement. This server has been running IMAIL for over three
> years with no problems. %.08 has been installed since around December.
>
> Running 60 domains, with unique i/p's with approximately 350 total
users.
>
> Regards,
> Ron Schaefer
>
> Interon Internet Solutions
> http://www.interon1.com
> 949.458.8602
>
>
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