Re: First send always fails until .....

On Saturday 21 Dec 2013 13:53:49 Ingo Klöcker wrote:
> On Tuesday 17 December 2013 10:31:37 ianseeks wrote:
> > HI
> > 
> > Every first send of an email from Kmail (4.11.4) opensuse 12.3 I get
> > this message "Failed to transport message. Your SMTP server does not
> > support PLAIN. Choose a different authentication method. The server
> > responded: "5.7.0 Incorrect username or password. (#MBR1212)".  All
> > subsequent attempts to resend fial until i do this:-
> > "Setting/Configure Kmail/Accounts/Sending/"select outgoing
> > account"/Modify/Advanced/Auto Detect".
> > The Autodetect dialogue flashes to show it "did" the job but the
> > settings remain the same. If i now reopen the email sitting in the
> > Outbox and send, it works.
> > It also happens with the first reply instead of a compose/send.
> > I always use the "New Mailing list email" option as i only use this
> > account for mailing lists.
> > I also had this problem with Kmail (4.11.1) on opensuse 12.3
> > 
> > 
> > On my other login that i use for all other communication, it seems to
> > work fine.  I want to see if this can be fixed without creating a new
> > user etc.
> 
> Creating a new user shouldn't be necessary. But maybe it helps if you
> re-create the Sending account. Before you do this make a backup of the
> mailtransports configuration file (use "kde4-config --path config
> --locate mailtransports" to locate the file) and afterward compare the
> backup and the new configuration to see if there is a difference. This
> might help to fix a bug (if there is one).
> 
> 
> Regards,
> Ingo
Thanks a lot Ingo. It seems to work fine now. 
I wonder how the "password=" ended up in the mailtransports file.

 
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