Re: Balsa & SMTP Authentication

[Jerry Van Brimmer <jerryvb vei net>]

Thanks, now I have a clue as to what the problem is. I'll start hunting
down a libesmtp rpm for suse.

Jerry

James - sorry for the last message that went to you instead of the list,
I made an addressing mistake.

John Merryweather Cooper wrote:
> 
> 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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