Re: SMTP Troubles

[Pawel Salek <pawsa theochem kth se>]

On 09/30/2004 11:31:22 PM, John Lowell wrote:
>  I'm using Balsa as the default mail client in XFCE4, the default   
> desktop in the SAM livecd. Attempting to send mail I'm stopped with   
> authentification problems at the first try. I have entered my   
> password  (or passphrase as you call it) correctly and have made  
> certain to  enter the port number in the server configuration, that  
> is to say,  smtp.xxxxxxx.xxxxxxx.com:25. The server requires  
> authentification  and,  somehow, I'm not providing it. How do I  
> provide it beyond offering  the  proper password? I use thunderbird  
> with no such problems in Debian  and  Gentoo. I'm stumped. That said,  
> you've done a lot of nice work on  this  package. I'd love to be able  
> to send mail with it. Looking forward to  hearing from you.

Run balsa from a terminal window, enable debugging output /Preferences/ 
Misc/debug - and look at the output. You should get entire conversation  
with the SMTP server displayed - it will hopefully give some clues.

Also, can you verify you have libesmtp-1.0.3? Older versions had  
problems with TLS (not sure whether it is relevant).

Pawel