[Users] WG: [Bug 3252] smtp authentication at smtp server of GMX fails - permanent error - no sending

[Juergen Gaida]

>>Same credentials are used for POP3 and SMTP...and POP3 works flawless.

>- Are you leaving the credentials blank in the Send panel?
>- Using "Authenticate with POP3 before send"?
>- are you sure you are pointing SMTP at the right server/port? I ask
>  because my provider has different servers for different account levels
>  -- my main mail goes to a secure server, while some of my other lesser
>  accounts go to a normal, less secure server. In addition, the secure
>  server even uses a very non-conventional 4-digit port.

I left them blank as well as I filled in the user name and password  -  no change

My standard was/is to leave it blank.

No, Authentication via POP3 before send is not required - and does not work if I switch it on.

And, yes, it is the right server and the right port.

It all worked for weeks and then it stopped, all by a sudden. Then it worked again (without changes
on my system) and after some weeks it stopped again - this time persistent.

So, you are right, unless I have not sorted out all possible sources of the failure, I cannot be
sure to be at the base line. 

And my own failure is also possible and it truely was often enough - just a missed tick or a tick too much,
a typo, a wrong number... - more often than the software....

So, lets see where I will end up this time :-)



Pierre Fortin <pf at pfortin.com> schrieb am 13:43 Freitag, 22.August 2014:
 


On Fri, 22 Aug 2014 10:36:27 +0100 Juergen Gaida wrote:

>Same credentials are used for POP3 and SMTP...and POP3 works flawless.

- Are you leaving the credentials blank in the Send panel?
- Using "Authenticate with POP3 before send"?
- are you sure you are pointing SMTP at the right server/port? I ask
  because my provider has different servers for different account levels
  -- my main mail goes to a secure server, while some of my other lesser
  accounts go to a normal, less secure server. In addition, the secure
  server even uses a very non-conventional 4-digit port.



BTW, this is the .signature file I used circa 1990 after several years
involved in the Internet's early deployment days:

   "Until you've found AND fixed a problem, 
    what you discount will likely be the source."

That was my way of saying the most difficult problems usually have a very
simple/subtle cause which is/was too "unlikely" to take seriously... :) :)

Good luck,

Pierre
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