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List:       kdepim-users
Subject:    Re: [kdepim-users] SMTP-trouble in Kmail
From:       Martin Fahrendorf <fahrendorf () helix-gmbh ! net>
Date:       2006-02-21 14:07:26
Message-ID: 43FB1E9E.8030902 () helix-gmbh ! net
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Jeff Eklund schrieb:
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> Hello!
> I'm just migrated from using Thunderbird as my mail client to using
> Kmail, since I waned to use the powerful Kontact-suite. However, the
> SMTP-server that my ISP provides me with doesn't work with Kmail. It
> works like a charm from Thunderbird and I'm sending this through it
> right now!
> The server is smtpauth.swip.net and I'm connecting to it on port 25,
> using PLAIN authentication and no encryption. Just as in Thunderbird.
> However, with Kmail the server returns 501, which I understand to mean
> that it can't authenticate me. I've triple-checked username and
> password, I've spoken with my ISP-support (They were no good at all; "We
> don't provide support for those programs. I only know Outlook!" but they
> verified that my username and password is correct and working)
> I've asked in #kde and #kontact but no one there could help me either.
> I've telnet:ed into the server just to ensure that I'm sing the correct
> auth, and I am. The button in Kmail that checks what the server supports
> is correct.
> 
> So to clarify:
> I'm using smtpauth.swip.net
> In kmail, the settings are as follows:
> Host: smtpauth.swip.net
> Port: 25
> User: *************
> Password: ***********
> Encryption: none
> Auth: PLAIN
> 
> In Thunderbird, the settings are:
> Host: smtpauth.swip.net
> Port: 25
> User: [same as above]
> password: [same as above]
> Not using any encryption.
> 
> With Kmail, the server replies with 501.
> Any help is highly appreciated. Thanks.

What exactly does the server reply? The mailserver usualy does not only 
answer plain 501 error number. Did you try it without authentication?

> 
> Live well,
> Jeff
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Martin
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