Re: smtp authentication fails

Hi Marc,

On Mon, 3 Dec 2007, Marc Greene wrote:

> Hi, I'm having trouble getting pine to authenticate properly to the
> smtp server given by my email provider. The settings I was given
> (copied from http://lavabit.com/settings.html) are:
[...]
> So, in my pine configuration settings, I have:
> 
> user-domain = lavabit.com
> smtp-server  = lavabit.com/user=marc
> 
> In my .pinerc, I also have this:
> 
> # List of SASL authenticators to disable.
> disable-these-authenticators=
> 
> The value is blank.
> 
> Yet, when I try to send an email with these settings, I first get the
> screen that says:
> 
> There was a failure validating the SSL/TLS certificate for the server
>                 lavabit.com
> The reason for the failure was
>                 unable to get local issuer certificate (details)
[...]
> So I exit this, and am returned to the previous screen where it gives
> me the option to continue sending the message anyway, but when I
> do this it gives me this error:
> 
> Error sending: Can not authenticate to SMTP server: 501 Invalid
> AUTH command.

Probably Pine is refusing to use SSL because it can't verify the 
certificate, and tries to authenticate without SSL, which lavabit refuses.

Try adding /ssl/novalidate-cert to your smtp-server. It's less secure 
(risk of password theft if the remote server is spoofed) but may get 
things working for you.

Cheers, Chris.
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