<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="">>>Same credentials are used for POP3 and SMTP...and POP3 works flawless.<br style="" class="" clear="none"><br style="" class="" clear="none">>- Are you leaving the credentials blank in the Send panel?<br style="" class="" clear="none">>- Using "Authenticate with POP3 before send"?<br style="" class="" clear="none">>- are you sure you are pointing SMTP at the right server/port? I ask<br style="" class="" clear="none">> because my provider has different servers for different account levels<br style="" class="" clear="none">> -- my main mail goes to a secure server, while some of my other lesser<br style="" class="" clear="none">> accounts go to a normal, less secure server. In addition, the secure<br style="" class=""
clear="none">> server even uses a very non-conventional 4-digit port.</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 left them blank as well as I filled in the user name and password - no change<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="">My standard was/is to leave it blank.</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="">No, Authentication via POP3 before send is not required - and does not work if I switch it 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="">And, yes, it is the right server and the right port.</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 all worked for weeks and then it stopped, all by a sudden. Then it worked again (without changes</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="">on my system) and after some weeks it stopped again - this time persistent.</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, you are right, unless I have not sorted out all possible sources of the failure, I cannot be</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="">sure to be at the base line. <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="">And my own failure is also possible and it truely was often enough - just a missed tick or a tick too much,</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="">a typo, a wrong number... - more often than the
software....</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, lets see where I will end up this time :-)<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 13:43 Freitag,
22.August 2014:<br style="" class=""> </font> </div> <br style="" class=""><br style="" class=""> <div style="" class="">On Fri, 22 Aug 2014 10:36:27 +0100 Juergen Gaida wrote:<br style="" class="" clear="none"><br style="" class="" clear="none">>Same credentials are used for POP3 and SMTP...and POP3 works flawless.<br style="" class="" clear="none"><br style="" class="" clear="none">- Are you leaving the credentials blank in the Send panel?<br style="" class="" clear="none">- Using "Authenticate with POP3 before send"?<br style="" class="" clear="none">- are you sure you are pointing SMTP at the right server/port? I ask<br style="" class="" clear="none"> because my provider has different servers for different account levels<br style="" class="" clear="none"> -- my main mail goes to a secure server, while some of my other lesser<br style="" class="" clear="none"> accounts go to a normal, less secure server. In addition, the
secure<br style="" class="" clear="none"> server even uses a very non-conventional 4-digit port.<br style="" class="" clear="none"><br style="" class="" clear="none"><br style="" class="" clear="none"><br style="" class="" clear="none">BTW, this is the .signature file I used circa 1990 after several years<br style="" class="" clear="none">involved in the Internet's early deployment days:<br style="" class="" clear="none"><br style="" class="" clear="none"> "Until you've found AND fixed a problem, <br style="" class="" clear="none"> what you discount will likely be the source."<br style="" class="" clear="none"><br style="" class="" clear="none">That was my way of saying the most difficult problems usually have a very<br style="" class="" clear="none">simple/subtle cause which is/was too "unlikely" to take seriously... :) :)<br style="" class="" clear="none"><br style="" class="" clear="none">Good luck,<div style="" class=""
id="yqtfd27277"><br style="" class="" clear="none">Pierre<br style="" class="" clear="none"><br style="" class="" clear="none"></div><br style="" class=""><br style="" class=""></div> </div> </div> </div> </div></body></html>