Re: Balsa & SMTP Authentication

[John Merryweather Cooper <john_m_cooper yahoo com>]

On 2001.11.12 19:53 Jerry Van Brimmer wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have installed Balsa 1.2.3 in my SuSE 7.3 machine. I used the rpm
> package for SuSE 7.3. I cannot get any mail to send because my ISP's
> smtp server requires authentication, i.e. username & password. I
> cannot
> find any place in Balsa to enter this info. If I remember right,
> version
> 1.2.0 had a place for this info, but 1.2.3 doesn't. Or, is there some
> library or file I need to install?
> 
> Jerry

Probably, your problem is that the RPM for SuSE that contains libesmtp 
has a version of libesmtp that was built WITHOUT OpenSSL support.  
Without an OpenSSL-capable libesmtp, authentication over SMTP is likely 
to prove painfully elusive.

My Balsa-1.2.3 (running under FreeBSD 4.4-STABLE) is supported by a 
libesmtp built with OpenSSL support, and I have entries in the 
preferences dialog to support authentication (although my SMTP server 
does not currently require authentication).

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