The solution to all this is to use a Password Server, created/configured via the app Open Directory Assistant.
I just found out, when stumbling over it in a completely different part of the OSX Server Manual. I've set it up, tested it and am running it. It works! Max G PS -- I'm sending this message to the group mainly because I couldn't get through to Jérôme at <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> who sent me a mail about this outside the list. I tried twice and got an "undeliverable message" in return from my ISP's Postmaster each time.. ??? At 2003-05-13, 18.30 CET, Max Gossell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Perhaps I should rephrase myself -- this might be of interest for this >group, or for the CTM staff. > >Here it is: > >The OSX Server's Mail Service uses SMTP Authentication as follows: > >"Require authenticated SMTP using CRAM-MD5" + (option) "Allow PLAIN and >LOGIN authentication". > >Now, if I check "Authenticate as user" in PM (inputting the correct user/ >pass, of course) I still CAN'T send. > >But if I use Entourage, and check "SMTP server requires authentication"+ >"Log on using" and input my username/pass I CAN send! (If I instead >choose the "Use same settings as receiving mail server" I can't send from >Entourage either). > >Anyhow -- from Entourage there is a least a possibility. Shouldn't there >be from PowerMail as well? > >/Max G > > > >At 2003-05-13, 12:58 CET, Max Gossell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>I'm trying to set up the Mail Service provided by Mac OSX Server. Somehow >>I can get it to work (Sending/Retrieving, authentications and stuff) with >>Entourage but not with PM. >> >>If anybody out there knows about these things, I'd be very happy for some >>help. >> >>Perhaps in such a case you should e-mail me directly, so we don't need to >>burden this list too much: >> >><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> >>I'd really appreciate some help. I've been banging my head against the >>wall for hours now. Why Entourage? Why not PM? >> >>Best, >>Max G >> >> >> >> > > > > >
