<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:12pt"><div style="" class=""><span style="" class="">"</span><br style="">Have you checked the less obvious? Maybe a space or TAB or other<br style="" class="" clear="none">whitespace in the userid or password fields? Or a typo?<br style="" class="" clear="none"><br style="" class="" clear="none">Sometimes the server is really telling you where to focus...<br style="" class="" clear="none"><br style="" class="" clear="none">I can connect to mail.gmx.net at various ports (see below); but I don't<br style="" class="" clear="none">have an account....<br style="" class="" clear="none"><br style="" class="" clear="none">Note that port 465 does not identify itself as an ESMTP server...</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: HelveticaNeue,Helvetica
Neue,Helvetica,Arial,Lucida Grande,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;" class="">"</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: HelveticaNeue,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,Lucida Grande,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;" class="">Hi,</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: HelveticaNeue,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,Lucida Grande,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;" class="">SPACE, TAB or WhiteSpace or TYPO is not an issue. I have cleared and re-typed often enough.</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: HelveticaNeue,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,Lucida Grande,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;" class="">Same credentials are used for POP3 and SMTP...and POP3 works flawless.</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family:
HelveticaNeue,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,Lucida Grande,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;" class=""><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: HelveticaNeue,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,Lucida Grande,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;" class="">I am checking with a user of the salixos community, but...</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: HelveticaNeue,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,Lucida Grande,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;" class=""><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: HelveticaNeue,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,Lucida Grande,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;" class="">Anyway, I will report after checking the obvious and inobvious later on.</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: HelveticaNeue,Helvetica
Neue,Helvetica,Arial,Lucida Grande,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;" class=""><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: HelveticaNeue,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,Lucida Grande,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;" class="">Thanks so far.<br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: HelveticaNeue,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,Lucida Grande,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;" class=""><br></div> <div class="qtdSeparateBR"><br><br></div><div style="display: block;" class="yahoo_quoted"> <div class="" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div class="" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div style="" class="" dir="ltr"> <font style="" class="" face="Arial"
size="2"> Pierre Fortin <pf@pfortin.com> schrieb am 0:08 Freitag, 22.August 2014:<br style="" class=""> </font> </div> <br style="" class=""><br style="" class=""> <div style="" class="">On Thu, 21 Aug 2014 20:29:20 +0100 Juergen Gaida wrote:<div style="" class="" id="yqtfd54572"><br style="" class="" clear="none"><br style="" class="" clear="none">>The result is always the same: 553 Authentication credentials invalid.</div><br style="" class="" clear="none"><br style="" class="" clear="none">Have you checked the less obvious? Maybe a space or TAB or other<br style="" class="" clear="none">whitespace in the userid or password fields? Or a typo?<br style="" class="" clear="none"><br style="" class="" clear="none">Sometimes the server is really telling you where to focus...<br style="" class="" clear="none"><br style="" class="" clear="none">I can connect to mail.gmx.net at various ports (see below); but I don't<br style="" class=""
clear="none">have an account....<br style="" class="" clear="none"><br style="" class="" clear="none">Note that port 465 does not identify itself as an ESMTP server...<br style="" class="" clear="none"><br style="" class="" clear="none">HTH,<br style="" class="" clear="none">Pierre<br style="" class="" clear="none"><br style="" class="" clear="none"><br style="" class="" clear="none">$ telnet mail.gmx.net 25<br style="" class="" clear="none">Trying 212.227.17.190...<br style="" class="" clear="none">Connected to mail.gmx.net.<br style="" class="" clear="none">Escape character is '^]'.<br style="" class="" clear="none">220 gmx.com (mrgmx002) Nemesis ESMTP Service ready<br style="" class="" clear="none">quit<br style="" class="" clear="none">221 gmx.com Service closing transmission channel<br style="" class="" clear="none">Connection closed by foreign host.<br style="" class="" clear="none"><br style="" class="" clear="none">$ telnet mail.gmx.net 465<br
style="" class="" clear="none">Trying 212.227.17.168...<br style="" class="" clear="none">Connected to mail.gmx.net.<br style="" class="" clear="none">Escape character is '^]'.<br style="" class="" clear="none">quit<br style="" class="" clear="none"><br style="" class="" clear="none">Connection closed by foreign host.<br style="" class="" clear="none"><br style="" class="" clear="none">$ telnet mail.gmx.net 587<br style="" class="" clear="none">Trying 212.227.17.190...<br style="" class="" clear="none">Connected to mail.gmx.net.<br style="" class="" clear="none">Escape character is '^]'.<br style="" class="" clear="none">220 gmx.com (mrgmx001) Nemesis ESMTP Service ready<br style="" class="" clear="none">quit<br style="" class="" clear="none">221 gmx.com Service closing transmission channel<br style="" class="" clear="none">Connection closed by foreign host.<div style="" class="" id="yqtfd99525"><br style="" class="" clear="none"><br style="" class=""
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