On Mon, 30 Nov 2009 22:40:24 -0500, rocek <[email protected]> in mozilla.support.seamonkey wrote:
>jim wrote: >> 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 >> >I am experiencing similar problems, and went so far as to ask our >systems people at the University of Delaware to check it out; they >downloaded Seamonkey 2.0 and couldn't get it to work with our servers >with any combination of settings (Seamonkey 1.x worked fine). I also >have been unable to get the SMTP settings to work with Speakeasy's SMTP >server (my isp), which had no problem with Seamonkey 1.x; I tried >authentication on and off, as well as playing with multiple options. So >far, the only SMTP server that's worked for me is google. Are there >some compatibility issues in the new setting options? Thanks for any >suggesitons....Tom After being stymied for several days, this is what worked for me, OI am borrowing the original message and my reply from "chicagofan": ~~~~ >Under your user account's Mail/Newsgroup Menu, have you checked your >settings under "Outgoing Server [SMTP]"? > >If not, click EDIT from your toolbar/Click Mail & Newsgroups Account >Settings/ Click "Outgoing Server (SMTP)"/then CLICK... "EDIT" on the >default settings for your server. Make sure the box is NOT checked to >authenticate... in that pop up box. > >I apologize if you have already done this, **** > but there is more than one "authenticate" box in SM, and this is what > happened to me, **** Thanks. I am now sending email with SM2.0. How could I miss something so obvious. (oh...it wasn't that obvious. :-)) jim ~~~~ Hoping it works for ya............. jim _______________________________________________ support-seamonkey mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
