below >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] >Okay. Sending mail has nothing to do with receiving. >The two are very seperate processes. Email addresses This is understood, thus my clarification that other clients were sending and receiving as expected, and the server functioning as expected in regards to those clients, just not Netscape Messenger. >are always specified as [EMAIL PROTECTED] I believe you are >trying to say that your SMTP server has SMTP_AUTH enabled, >so you're trying to provide a username and password to >be allowed to send mail. The SMTP_AUTH patches do not work Fairly generic qmail installation, not sure if this was enabled by default(FreeBSD 4.3 Stable port with a few extra patches). >amount. However, I'm not certian of which version to use. I suggest >going with roaming users for the time being, and if you cannot wait, >going with the development version. roaming users was and is enabled. **There is no authentication problem when sending mail on this server with other clients (outlook, outlook express, internet mail...) EXCEPT for Netscape Messanger (again a la 4.7X version in particular, have not tested with others yet). In short, we have a couple of users trying to use Netscape messanger unsuccessfully, everyone else is happily sending and receiving mail on this server. >> Have tried using % and : in replacement of the @ sign in the >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] string (a la canned responses) >> no avail >> >> Have tried adding user_pref("mail.allow_at_sign_in_user_name", true); to the >> prefs.js file for the netscape client (took a while to dig that up) >> no avail >> >> same workstation authenticates this virtual user with same UID and >PW in MSOE, >> MSO, even simple internet mail with old version of win98 (though had to use % >> sign)... Netscape still refuses to authenticate to send mail. >> >> Have plumb run out of help docs, mailing list archives and little >dark corners >> of the internet to search in
