On 18.09.10,21:20, Michael Williams wrote: > Hi, > > I'm trying to get mutt's smtp support to work with my department's new > Exchange server. > > According to the current draft documentation, Thunderbird can be configured > as follows: > <http://www.physics.ox.ac.uk/it/email/exchange/2010/ThunderbirdSetup.htm>. I > have confirmed that this configuration works. > > So, having read Kyle Wheeler's very useful post > <http://marc.info/?l=mutt-users&m=124285017604463&w=2>, I have turned the > Thunderbird instructions into the following smtp_url: > > set smtp_url="smtp://[email protected]@mail.physics.ox.ac.uk:587" > > With this configuration, when I send mail in mutt, the status bar says "SSL > connection using TLSv1/SSLv3 (AES128-SHA)" (which sounds promising) then > "Authenticating (NTLM)", then prompts me for my password. I give this, but > after a suspiciously long delay ~10s, I get the error "SASL authentication > failed". > > I emphasize that the server appears to work as described in the instructions > for configuring SMTP for Thunderbird. I'm using the same username and > password in mutt. This is the same username and password I use to make the > IMAP connection; I also have 'set imap_user="[email protected]"' and that > works fine. The server is configured to check that mail is coming from a > registered address, and I'm setting the From: header appropriately in mutt. > I'm stumped. Does anyone have any ideas? >
Does your /var/log/mail gives any more clues? Jostein
