On Tue, 24 Nov 2009 14:45:12 +0100, Martin Freitag
<[email protected]> in mozilla.support.seamonkey wrote:

>obones schrieb:
>> Hello all,
>>
>> I'm currently reviewing SM2 and when I installed it I told it to import
>> the settings from my existing SM1 installation.
>> All email accounts got imported, along with the SMTP server definition.
>> While I can send emails just fine in SM1, I always get an error when
>> sending emails with SM2.
>> The error says this:
>>
>> Unable to authenticate to SMTP server SERVER_NAME. The serer does not
>> support any compatible insecure authentication mechanism but you have
>> chosen insecure authentication. Try switching on secure authentication
>> or contact your service provider.
>>
>> I tried turning on TLS or even SSL, but none of these are provided by
>> the given server.
>> What I find weird is that it worked and continues to work fine in SM1.
>> Obviously, some option has been removed/disabled in SM2, but which one?
>> Is there a way to reactivate it?
>I'd recommend making sure that you have entered your login-data for the 
>STMP server if necessary (if not, e.g. your provider is using SMTP after 
>POP, remove them). Try to enable an disable the secure authentification 
>to test with each setting. When trying with, StartTLS should be 
>supported my most servers I think.
>If everything fails, try to recreate a second SMTP server fom scratch 
>and associate it with your corresponding-account.
>regards
>
>Martin


I took your suggestions -- including creating a new account form scratch
and making it default.  the problem persists..............

jim
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