On Wed, 25 Nov 2009 19:49:39 -0500, Bill Davidsen <[email protected]> in mozilla.support.seamonkey wrote:
>jim wrote: >> On Tue, 24 Nov 2009 13:09:40 +0100, obones <obones_g...@fds_free.fr> in >> mozilla.support.seamonkey wrote: >> >>> 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? >>> >>> Thanks >> >> My situation is that I can receive just gangbusters with SM2. But it >> refuses to send, giving the SMTP-AUTH message. However, the server >> settings show no security, no Auth. >> >> Let me know if you get it working and most of all, how you did it. >> >I think that may be your problem, you have to match your settings to the >server, >if it wants auth you have to provide it. Since I don't know what your server >wants I can't be sure, but there's a reasonable possibility that you need to >configure auth. Not only that, but secure auth, like TLS+SSL (I forget the >exact >choice in the list), but it's not the checkbox, it's the menu about 1/3 down >the >screen. Thanks. I will try that one. jim _______________________________________________ support-seamonkey mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
