This may be a stupid question, but have you set up the email clients to actually authenticate when sending. SMTP AUTH requires that a username and password are supplied when sending to any address NOT held by the server being used. If you send to an address on the server, it will work without authentication but if you try to use your server to get to an outside address, it will only continue once valid credentials are supplied.
Andrew On Thu, 2002-04-25 at 05:44, D'Arcy Norman wrote: > > Howdy! > > I've been plugging away trying to get James set up on a project server. > Very impressed by the scope and accomplishments of the project thus far > (and am looking forward to IMAP, too!) > > My goal is to be able to have a manageable mail server that provides > access (send and receive) to messages from anywhere, so I was hoping to > use SMTP authentication to allow connections from any physical address. > > The problem appears to be that the SMTP AUTH connection fails when > sending messages to external addresses. Messages sent to other James > accounts work just fine. > > My smtpserver.log file contains a series of entries like this: > (servernames and ip addresses left in for sake of completeness) > > Wed Apr 24 20:59:59 MDT 2002 [INFO ] (smtpserver): Hello Name is: > socrates.dyndns.info > Wed Apr 24 20:59:59 MDT 2002 [DEBUG ] (smtpserver): Max message size > is: 0 > Wed Apr 24 20:59:59 MDT 2002 [INFO ] (smtpserver): Connection from > h24-64-95-243.cg.shawcable.net (24.64.95.243) > Wed Apr 24 20:59:59 MDT 2002 [INFO ] (smtpserver): Command received: > EHLO h24-64-95-243 > Wed Apr 24 20:59:59 MDT 2002 [INFO ] (smtpserver): Command received: > MAIL FROM:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Wed Apr 24 20:59:59 MDT 2002 [INFO ] (smtpserver): Command received: > RCPT TO:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Wed Apr 24 20:59:59 MDT 2002 [ERROR ] (smtpserver): Authentication is > required for mail request > Wed Apr 24 20:59:59 MDT 2002 [INFO ] (smtpserver): Command received: > QUIT > > I've tried several mail clients (on MacOSX: Mail.app, GnuMail.app, > Entourage) and all have the same result (except Entourage seemed to > trigger a "connection reset by peer" error message in smtpserver.log) > > I have the following smtp settings: > > <helloName autodetect="TRUE">myMailServer</helloName> > <connectiontimeout>360000</connectiontimeout> > <authRequired>true</authRequired> > <maxmessagesize>0</maxmessagesize> > > The rest of the smtp settings were left commented out. > > If I turn off authRequired, it works of course, but is a nasty open > relay. Don't really want to do that. > > Any thoughts? > > - D'Arcy Norman > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > -- Andrew Timberlake Digital Design Development http://www.ddd.co.za mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 011 705 1737 082 415 8283 "If debugging is the process of removing bugs, then programming must be the process of putting them in." -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
