Re: SMTP Server Authorization

Hi,

I don't post directly from nmh (I go through sendmail with "spost"),
so I regret that I don't have many good ideas.

You may want to add the "-saslmech" flag, setting it to match whatever
mechanism your .mailrc file is using (perhaps "LOGIN").  You could
also try the "-snoop" flag, but if you do, beware that the fourth line
that follows "AUTH LOGIN" in the trace contains a easy-to-read version
of your password, so never copy-and-paste that line to people.  The
LOGIN exchange typically has "334 VXNlcm5hbWU6", followed by your
username, followed by "334 UGFzc3dvcmQ6", followed by your password.

One way to troubleshoot this would be to run mail(nail?) in some mode
that lets you record a log of exactly what mail says to the server as
you log in.  Then, you compare against the output of "send -snoop",
and find what is different, such as perhaps different usernames.

The nmh-workers list had brief discussion a few years back:
  http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/nmh-workers/2003-11/threads.html
It's probably worth re-posting your question to one of the nmh lists,
to see if they have a more recent answer.

 -Jacob

On 9/12/06, [email protected] <[email protected]> wrote:
> set smtp=my.server.com
> set smtp-auth-user=thatsme
> set smtp-auth-password=1234567
[...]
> send -verbose -server my.server.com -user thatsme -password 123456 -sasl
>
> and it comes back "user unknown"