cmcadams sent me the following::
Jay O'Brien wrote:
I Agree, it has been doing this exact thing to me on three
different computers with three different email addresses
on att.net for several months. No one seems concerned.
Sometimes I have to send as many as seven times before it
finally is accepted. ATT/Yahoo is no help, either.
Jay
-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Unable to authenticate to SMTP ?? #@?
Date: Tue, 05 Jul 2011 16:46:27 -0400
From: Rostyslaw Lewyckyj<[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
I'm using SM 2.0.14 .
For this account according to the account settings:
- I am connecting to pop.att.yahoo.net:995 .
- The outgoing server (SMTP) is
[email protected] - smtp.att.y...
(I'm guessing that's smtp.att.yahoo.net . But the
box for entering the entry doesn't scroll. So I can
not verify the name)
- Connection security is SSL/TLS
and the check box for 'Use secure authentication' is unchecked
[By the way, the account editing window can not be re-sized.
For server settings, it is too narrow so that the boxes
for 'advanced' and 'browse' are truncated on the right.
Has the window been made re-sizable now for 2.1+ ]
Recently my system has begun to issue the following error
when I try to send out emails on this account:
"Sending of message failed. An error occurred sending mail:
Unable to authenticate to SMTP server smtp.att.yahoo.com.
It does not support authentication (SMTP-AUTH) but you have
chosen to use authentication. Uncheck 'use name and password'
for that server or contact your server provider"
NOTE: This is not a hard error. If I wait a minute or two
and retry sending the message, it is sent out successfully.
So who's to blame? AND how do I get rid of this annoyance?
Occurs irregularly here as well. Settings correct, per their own
instructions. Persistence in clicking Send has worked for me, thus far.
Wouldn't dream of contacting ATT/Yahoo. :P
its a problem with servers being busy at AT&T's end of the pipe...
beginning to happen again with aim/aol/netscape servers too...
sean
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