Riaz :) wrote: > Hello, > > What exactly is happening? I was not able to send mail using Netscape 4.77 > until I entered a username and password. I had read your messages but thought that this was a different problem. On Netscape 6, I get the following error message: (It is translated from Japanese, so not sure if it is the exact message as english version) --- Encountered an error during transmission of the mail. The SMTP server responded with the following: mydomain.com VRFY ETRN 8BITMIME PIPELINING AUTH LOGIN PLAIN CRAM-MD5 Please contact the mail administrator. --- This message wasn't helpful. I went to another machine and tried this with Netscape 4.75 and get the following, much more useful message. (Also translated) --- The mail server can not be used because a user name was not specified. Please try again after specifying a user name. --- From Riaz's thread last week "Netscape 4.77 relay", the only solution to this is to modify the source and do a build myself? (In a humble newcomer voice) I am not sure what the difference between the responses "AUTH LOGIN PLAIN RSA-AUTH" and "AUTH LOGIN CRAM-MD5 PLAIN RSA-AUTH" are, however Netscape is still a widely used browser, lord knows it has plenty of other bugs in it. We've all worked around plenty of them. If patching the code is the only way to get Netscape users up and running with XMail, it seems worth making the fix to make it that much easier for new users to get up and running. <:-) At any rate, I'll get to work patching mine. Thanks for all your help. Cheers, Leif > > Riaz... Davide Libenzi wrote: > On 25-Jun-2001 Leif Mortenson wrote: > >> Ok, thanks. I'll go climb under a rock now... >> >> That fixed the problem with telnet. It is now working correctly there. >> There are way too many examples out there of telnet smtp sessions >> using the sytax without the '<>' characters. >> >> I am still unable to send mail using Netscape6, but I will spend some >> more time trying to figure this out on my own. > > > Are you using smtp authentication ? I was not meaning to use smtp authentication. The message that > > > > > - Davide
