RE: POP access fails for Mac's

> On Wed, 22 Oct 2003, Dave Kitabjian wrote:
>=20
> > If you get some type of a prompt back, you probably have the right
> > server and port specified. After that, the authentication scheme
gets
> > more complicated. Most SMTP servers still have no "authentication"
per
> > se (unlike POP servers). Have you tried turning OFF authentication
for
> > SMTP in your Mail client completely?
>=20
> That seems to be the answer.  Setting authentication in the Mac mail
app
> to, "none" allowed the mail to be sent.

Ah. Excellent. You should always try that first for SMTP.

> You mentioned that you use a Mac also for mail reading. =20

At home only (unfortunately :)

> Is that the way
> you have yours set?

Well, no. Mine is set to use SMTP AUTH since I was connecting to my mail
server from outside their allowed IP block. But that changed recently:
I'm on an "allowed" IP now, so I should probably turn the SMTP AUTH off
and go back to "None".

> Does qmail-smtpd have an option for using ssl for negotiating with
mail
> clients? =20

Not built in, but there may be a patch.

> Both Netscape and Mac mail readers have that option in their
> config.

Sounds like you have something else to research :)

Dave