Hello, on 26.02.2002 21:50, Bill Cole at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

> At 6:08 PM +0100 2/25/02, Christian F Buser  imposed structure on a
> stream of electrons, yielding:
>> Using SIMS 1.8b9d9, I cannot get SMTP auth to work.
>> 
>> In the SIMS SMTP settings I have:
>> (X) Advertise AUTH Capability
>> (X) Allow ETRN for clients only
>> For 45 seconds, authenticated IPs are treated as clients
>> (X) Relay for clients only
>> (X) Verify return paths
>> 
>> However, with Eudora 4.3.3 and 5.x (both paid, on MacOS) I cannot
>> make it work. It always tells me "we do not relay".
>> 
>> The relevant settings in Eudora are correct, as far as I can tell:
>> SMTP server: mail.rumantsch.ch
>> (X) Allow authotization
>> Username and password should be okay, since otherwise I could not
>> receive incoming mails.
>> 
>> Of course I could use "POP before SMTP", but I don't like it, it's
>> cumbersome.  What else did I miss?
>> 
>> Here is the relevant part from the  SIMS log, in case it helps:
>> 
>> 17:50:09 5 SMTP-040() Stream Created
>> 17:50:09 4 SMTP-040() Got connection from [212.71.103.177:32843]
>> 17:50:09 4 SMTP-040([212.71.103.177]) Sending 220-Stalker Internet
>> Mail Server V.1.8b9d9 is ready.\r\n220 ESMTP is spoken here. You are
>> welcome\r\n
>> 17:50:09 5 SMTP-040([212.71.103.177]) OT 97 of 97 bytes sent, Flags=0
>> 17:50:09 5 SMTP-040([212.71.103.177]) *Status=22
>> 17:50:09 5 SMTP-040([212.71.103.177]) Received 19 bytes
>> 17:50:09 4 SMTP-040([212.71.103.177]) Input Line: XXXX [172.16.7.3]\r
>> 17:50:09 4 SMTP-040([212.71.103.177]) Sending 500 Unknown command\r\n
> 
> That's positively too wierd. It looks like Eudora is trying to use a
> command "XXXX" instead of "EHLO" to start the SMTP conversation. I
> have no idea why it might be doing that, but I think you should try
> to get an answer from Qualcomm. Without getting EHLO, SIMS doesn't
> know to send back the description of what SMTP extensions (like AUTH)
> that it supports.
> 
> FWIW, I use Eudora 5.1 all the time with SIMS using AUTH, and have no
> problems. This looks like something broken in your Eudora config.

More likely, it's a SMTP-filtering firewall, like Cisco PIX.

-- 
Best regards,
Dmitry Akindinov

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