Thanks for the quick response, It is not a windows machine, it's Linux (no anti-virus or any other filtering in place).
Any other suggestion? Thanks, Sorin On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 9:14 PM, Mark Crispin <[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, 20 Feb 2009, Marian Sorin Nasoi wrote: >> >> I get an error stating that: "TLS unavailable with this >> server:smtp.gmail.com" > > Is this a Windows machine? > > If so, the problem is almost certainly due to anti-virus software on your > system that sets itself up as a man-in-the-middle for "outgoing mail > filtering." > > Some of these programs have a list of programs which are allowed to evade > the filter. Of course, any self-respecting virus writer knows this, and > will make his virus masquerade as one of these programs. > > Disable the "outgoing mail filtering" in your anti-virus software. It's a > useless feature, and it's harmful. Outgoing mail filtering is properly the > responsibility of the mail submission server, not the user's PC. > > -- Mark -- > > http://panda.com/mrc > Democracy is two wolves and a sheep deciding what to eat for lunch. > Liberty is a well-armed sheep contesting the vote. > _______________________________________________ Imap-uw mailing list [email protected] http://mailman2.u.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/imap-uw
