Hello, Terry: Thanks much for this wonderful explanation. Now, how do we get all this into a knowledge base for the benefit of other Batters in the future? (I'll assume that the use of SMTP authentication will only grow.)
Let me read it twice again and we'll see if I can fully grok it. :-) Seriously, I'll keep it in a file for any similar event in the future. In my case, I POP my mail from one server and send through another. So that box "Use Settings of Mail Retrieval" will go unchecked. I thank you again, and wish you a fine weekend. David Wednesday, July 23, 2003, 5:59:44 PM, you wrote: T> Hi David, T> Glad to know that you can bypass ChoiceMail and it will work. That T> just seemed like a lot of unnecessary overhead. >> Actually, I have had that box "Use Settings of Mail Retrieval" >> ticked for some time and that does not help. >> But it makes me curious about the purpose of this box, and the actual >> affect this would have. >> BTW, I also tried POP authentication and that did not help. T> TB SMTP Authentication window presents several different "layers" of T> authentication. Pop before SMTP is a totally distinct thing from RFC T> 2554 Authentication. There's a brief explanation of it here. T> http://www.azc.com/htmls/faqs/pop_before_smtp.html T> In TB Help under SMTP Authentication, there is a good explanation of T> RFC 2554 Authentication and the optional use of MD5 with it. T> All of these depend on the server being set up to use it. For T> example, you can't force a server to use MD5 when the server is not T> set up for it. T> When you use RFC 2554 Authentication, you must supply a username and T> password to access the SMTP server. By checking the box "Use Settings T> of Mail Retrieval" you are telling TB to use the username and password T> that you have in the POP3 section as the username and password for RFC T> 2554 authentication when you are sending mail. This saves you from T> having to type the info in twice. T> In some instances, you may have a different username and password for T> sending mail. I actually use this feature quite a lot. It's a long T> and boring story, so I'll spare you, but I have a backup e-mail server T> that I use to send mail only when my primary server is down. I just T> change smtp servers and check the "Use specific settings" and I am T> good to go. ________________________________________________ Current version is 1.62r | "Using TBUDL" information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
