<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=""><br style=""> "Until you've found AND fixed a problem, <br style="" class="" clear="none"> what you discount will likely be the source."</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="">So, FIXED.</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="">It was indeed a settings failure - an unobvious one for me, obvious for others?</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 had an invalid entry in "configuration > account settings > advanced > domain name".</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 thought the domain name there is the domain name of the email provider.</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="">But, exactly this caused the server to refuse authentication as it collided with his internal</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="">names...or so. Still a bit confused why it did work so long...<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="">Now that I have chosen a different name, it runs.</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="">Maybe I will untick the box later on...to avoid any trouble at that point (again).</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="">So thanks for looking into and sorry for the trouble...</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="">Best regards</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="">Jürgen<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="" size="2" face="Arial"> Juergen Gaida <jpg153@yahoo.de> schrieb am 14:52 Freitag, 22.August 2014:<br style="" class=""> </font> </div> <br style="" class=""><br style="" class=""> <div
style="" class=""><div style="" class="" id="yiv3486224499"><div style="" class=""><div class="" style="color:#000;background-color:#fff;font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:12pt;"><div class="" style=""><br class="" style="" clear="none">>>Same credentials are used for POP3 and SMTP...and POP3 works flawless.<br class="" style="" clear="none"><br class="" style="" clear="none">>- Are you leaving the credentials blank in the Send panel?<br class="" style="" clear="none">>- Using "Authenticate with POP3 before send"?<br class="" style="" clear="none">>- are you sure you are pointing SMTP at the right server/port? I ask<br class="" style="" clear="none">> because my provider has different servers for different account levels<br class="" style="" clear="none">> -- my main mail goes to a secure server, while some of my other lesser<br class="" style=""
clear="none">> accounts go to a normal, less secure server. In addition, the secure<br class="" style="" clear="none">> server even uses a very non-conventional 4-digit port.</div><div class="" 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;"><br style="" class="" clear="none"></div><div class="" 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;">I left them blank as well as I filled in the user name and password - no change<br style="" class="" clear="none"></div><div class="" 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;">My standard was/is to
leave it blank.</div><div class="" 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;"><br style="" class="" clear="none"></div><div class="" 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;">No, Authentication via POP3 before send is not required - and does not work if I switch it on.</div><div class="" 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;"><br style="" class="" clear="none"></div><div class="" 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;">And, yes, it is the right server and the right port.</div><div class="" 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;"><br style="" class="" clear="none"></div><div class="" 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;">It all worked for weeks and then it stopped, all by a sudden. Then it worked again (without changes</div><div class="" 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;">on my system) and after some weeks it stopped again - this time persistent.</div><div class="" 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;"><br style="" class="" clear="none"></div><div class="" 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;">So, you are right, unless I have not sorted out all possible sources of the failure, I cannot be</div><div class="" 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;">sure to be at the base line. <br style="" class="" clear="none"></div><div class="" 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;">And my own failure is also
possible and it truely was often enough - just a missed tick or a tick too much,</div><div class="" 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;">a typo, a wrong number... - more often than the
software....</div><div class="" 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;"><br style="" class="" clear="none"></div><div class="" 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;">So, lets see where I will end up this time :-)<br style="" class="" clear="none"></div><div style="" class=""><br style="" class="" clear="none"><br style="" class="" clear="none"></div><div class="" style="display:block;"> <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 class="" dir="ltr" style=""> <font class=""
style="" size="2" face="Arial"> Pierre Fortin <pf@pfortin.com> schrieb am 13:43 Freitag,
22.August 2014:<br class="" style="" clear="none"> </font> </div> <br class="" style="" clear="none"><br class="" style="" clear="none"> <div style="" class="" id="yiv3486224499yqt85366"><div class="" style="">On Fri, 22 Aug 2014 10:36:27 +0100 Juergen Gaida wrote:<br class="" style="" clear="none"><br class="" style="" clear="none">>Same credentials are used for POP3 and SMTP...and POP3 works flawless.<br class="" style="" clear="none"><br class="" style="" clear="none">- Are you leaving the credentials blank in the Send panel?<br class="" style="" clear="none">- Using "Authenticate with POP3 before send"?<br class="" style="" clear="none">- are you sure you are pointing SMTP at the right server/port? I ask<br class="" style="" clear="none"> because my provider has different servers for different account levels<br class="" style="" clear="none"> -- my main mail goes to a secure server, while some of my other lesser<br class="" style=""
clear="none"> accounts go to a normal, less secure server. In addition, the
secure<br class="" style="" clear="none"> server even uses a very non-conventional 4-digit port.<br class="" style="" clear="none"><br class="" style="" clear="none"><br class="" style="" clear="none"><br class="" style="" clear="none">BTW, this is the .signature file I used circa 1990 after several years<br class="" style="" clear="none">involved in the Internet's early deployment days:<br class="" style="" clear="none"><br class="" style="" clear="none"> "Until you've found AND fixed a problem, <br class="" style="" clear="none"> what you discount will likely be the source."<br class="" style="" clear="none"><br class="" style="" clear="none">That was my way of saying the most difficult problems usually have a very<br class="" style="" clear="none">simple/subtle cause which is/was too "unlikely" to take seriously... :) :)<br class="" style="" clear="none"><br class="" style="" clear="none">Good luck,<div class=""
id="yiv3486224499yqtfd27277" style=""><br class="" style="" clear="none">Pierre<br class="" style="" clear="none"><br class="" style="" clear="none"></div><br class="" style="" clear="none"><br class="" style="" clear="none"></div></div> </div> </div> </div> </div></div></div><br style="" class=""><br style="" class=""></div> </div> </div> </div> </div></body></html>