hi Ben/Chris,
thanks for the replies,
<ben>
>It sounds like a better approach would be to use SMTP authentication from
>PowerMail, rather than running an open relay.
my sentiments exactly (it's not an open relay, it just allows our static
ip to send mail without authentication), but that's what powermail is
failing to do properly. I assume my username and password settings are
correct as they are the same as the ones I use to pickup my mail from the
same server.
I don't think powermail is sending a 'MECH=PLAIN' when authenticating.
The error I got in the mail log on the server is:
NOQUEUE: [81.5.187.51] did not issue MAIL/EXPN/VRFY/ETRN during
connection to MTA
>Under Mail Accounts..., Sending tab, check the box beside "authenticate
>as user" and provide some credentials. Or, under Mail Schedulings and
>Locations..., Locations tab, check beside "always use smtp server" and
>"use AUTH password".
yep, that's what I'm doing to setup my authentication. I think it must be
a issue with powermail because other machines in the office are happily
sending mail and authenticating with mail/entourage on OS X.
>PowerMail seems to support both LOGIN and CRAM-MD5 authentication, and
>works fine with Courier MTA on my mail server.
<chris>
>Select the messages in the mail browser, then click on the last button in
>the toolbar ("Send"). This resets them for sending when they failed the
>first time (say, you forgot to plug your ethernet cable back in and
>weren't connected to the internet, which would cause a failure). _Then_
>do a check for mail and they should go.
yea I tried that, I fixed it though by deleting all the 'waiting'
messages from the outbox and sending them from fresh. Strange that I
couldn't do this until I cleared out the waiting messages.
thanks again for the replies,
adam
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