[gentoo-user] Re: authorization faliure when sending email

[gentoo-user] Re: authorization faliure when sending email

[Matthew Lee]

Ok telnet works, both the gentoo server and the
btinternet server I want to connect to, though it
didn't give me the date and time 
My fault, left the 25 off the end, I've never used
telnet before
But that still doesn't explain why it wont connect
from kmail

Matt

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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: authorization faliure when sending email

[Mike Williams]

On Tuesday 06 September 2005 17:10, Matthew Lee wrote:
> Ok telnet works, both the gentoo server and the
> btinternet server I want to connect to, though it
> didn't give me the date and time
> My fault, left the 25 off the end, I've never used
> telnet before
> But that still doesn't explain why it wont connect
> from kmail

Was the greeting otherwise what you expected?
If you tell us what server you're trying to access, and the output you see, 
perhaps someone else can check.

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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: authorization faliure when sending email [SOLVED}

[Matthew R. Lee]

On Tuesday 06 September 2005 13:20, Mike Williams wrote:

> Was the greeting otherwise what you expected?
> If you tell us what server you're trying to access, and the output you see,
> perhaps someone else can check.

Sorry for the hiatus I had to go to Santiago for some meetings.
The problem is solved.  My brother-in-law supplied me with another smtp server 
which has worked.  So clearly the problem lies with the BT server.  I shall 
contact them to find out what they've changed.
Thanks for the help 
Matt

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[gentoo-user] Re: authorization faliure when sending email

[Matthew Lee]

I've tried using telnet, to more than one server, and
no joy.  The connection did nothing then timed out
after a few mins.
Everything worked fine last week and I haven't
knowingly changed anything.  But somewhere a setting
has changed, question is where?

Matt 

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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: authorization faliure when sending email

[Nagatoro]

Matthew Lee wrote:
> I've tried using telnet, to more than one server, and
> no joy.  The connection did nothing then timed out
> after a few mins.

Did you telnet to the right port (SMTP - 25, POP - 110, IMAP 143)?
If so does your ISP block connections to that port (like *many* does 
with port 25 to avoid spammers)?

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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: authorization faliure when sending email

[Mike Williams]

On Tuesday 06 September 2005 16:41, Matthew Lee wrote:
> I've tried using telnet, to more than one server, and
> no joy.  The connection did nothing then timed out
> after a few mins.
> Everything worked fine last week and I haven't
> knowingly changed anything.  But somewhere a setting
> has changed, question is where?

The connection to any remote smtp server timed out?

How about this:
mike@gimli ~ $ telnet robin.gentoo.org 25
Trying 140.105.134.102...
Connected to robin.gentoo.org.
Escape character is '^]'.
220 robin.gentoo.org ESMTP lists.gentoo.org ; Tue, 6 Sep 2005 15:53:08 GMT
quit
221 2.0.0 robin.gentoo.org closing connection
Connection closed by foreign host.


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[gentoo-user] Re: authorization faliure when sending email

[Matthew Lee]

I've tried every combination of kmail settings
available, no joy.  I've reemerged all the software
that --depclean removed, no joy.  I've reemerged
kmail, no joy.  I've reemerged ssmtp, no joy. 
However, I think ssmtp, or something associated with
it is the problem.  But what I haven't a clue.  Is
there another "simple" mail transfer agent I could
try.  I don't need anything fancy it's just a laptop
connected to the lab DHCP server.

Matt

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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: authorization faliure when sending email

[Mike Williams]

On Tuesday 06 September 2005 15:55, Matthew Lee wrote:
> I've tried every combination of kmail settings
> available, no joy.  I've reemerged all the software
> that --depclean removed, no joy.  I've reemerged
> kmail, no joy.  I've reemerged ssmtp, no joy.
> However, I think ssmtp, or something associated with
> it is the problem.  But what I haven't a clue.  Is
> there another "simple" mail transfer agent I could
> try.  I don't need anything fancy it's just a laptop
> connected to the lab DHCP server.

You have no need of a local MTA, at all.
Authentication errors from the remote host have nothing to do with any local 
MTA, you're speaking directly to the remote MTA.
If you're getting errors from the local MTA, you're doing something very 
wrong.

You need to attempt this manually using telnet, and/or try another client like 
thunderbird (as Matthias has suggested).
Look out for the banner from the server when you connect with telnet, make 
sure it is actually the server you expected to connect to.

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[gentoo-user] Re: authorization faliure when sending email

[Matthew Lee]

I tried reemerging kdepasswd, it didn't solve the
problem.
In answer to the other question the SMTP server does
require authentication.  The settings I have now
worked fine last week, which is why I'm sure it's
something on my laptop, but not kmail itself.

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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: authorization faliure when sending email

[Matthias Krebs]

Am Montag, 5. September 2005 21:56 schrieb Matthew Lee:
> I tried reemerging kdepasswd, it didn't solve the
> problem.
> In answer to the other question the SMTP server does
> require authentication.  The settings I have now
> worked fine last week, which is why I'm sure it's
> something on my laptop, but not kmail itself.
To make sure it is really a kmail problem, try to connect manually via telnet 
or another mail client like thunderbird or mozilla-mail.

If this works, have you  enabled store password in your connect settings?
Try to disable it if you have and enter your credentials again,maybe the file 
the password is stored in is corrupted. You can also try to emerge 
kwalletmanager which is a password storage app for kde, its used by kmail if 
it's installed.

HTH,

Matze
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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: authorization faliure when sending email

[Joe Menola]

On Monday September 5 2005 2:56 pm, Matthew Lee wrote:
> I tried reemerging kdepasswd, it didn't solve the
> problem.
> In answer to the other question the SMTP server does
> require authentication.  The settings I have now
> worked fine last week, which is why I'm sure it's
> something on my laptop, but not kmail itself.

Try going into kmail settings for smtp, click on "Modify" then the Security 
tab and then "Check what server supports".
Even tho the setting didn't change, this has solved this problem for me in the 
past.

-jm

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[gentoo-user] authorization faliure when sending email

[Matthew Lee]

I've looked everywhere for a solution to this problem.
 
When I try to send an email from kmail I get the
following message:

Sending failed:
Authentication failed. Most likely the password is
wrong. The server responded:
"authorization failed (#5.7.0)"

I can receive emails and I can send them from the
webmail client.  The settings in kmail are correct and
worked fine last week.  I've checked with the service
provider and no settings for the smtp server have been
changed. No one else in the lab is having problems
sending emails.  It seems to me that the problem is in
my laptop.  But I've no clue where to look.  On Friday
I did an emerge --update --deep world, followed by
etc-update (nothing obvious changed) then  emerge
--depclean, revdep-rebuild, but nothing was emerged or
changed that looked like it would affect the network
settings (apart from dhcpcd, but I tried reverting to
the previous version, but it made no difference).
Obviously something did change! But what I don't know.
Last night I redid the whole thing with --newuse to
see if that would fix the problem no joy. 

Packages emerged: 
gcc-config-1.3.12-r2
gnuconfig-20050602
binutils-config-1.8-r5
sandbox-1.2.12
glib-2.6.5
gentoo-sources-2.6.12-r10
libpcre-6.3
gawk-3.1.4-r4
udev-068
unzip-5.52
gtk+-2.6.8
gimp-2.2.8-r1
dhcpcd-2.0.0
gconf-2.10.1-r1
gstreamer-0.8.10
gst-plugins-0.8.10
gst-plugins-vorbis-0.8.10
gst-plugins-alsa-0.8.10
gst-plugins-oss-0.8.10
gst-plugins-ogg-0.8.10
gst-plugins-mad-0.8.10
mplayer-1.0_pre7-r1

Packages removed by --depclean
knetattach-3.4.1 (reemerged)
kxkb-3.4.1
kdcop-3.4.1
ksysguard-3.4.1
kappfinder-3.4.1
kfind-3.4.1. (reemerged)
kdebugdialog-3.4.1
kpager-3.4.1
ksystraycmd-3.4.1
kstart-3.4.1
ktip-3.4.1
kdepasswd-3.4.1
faad2-2.0-r3
drkonqi-3.4.1
kdebase-meta-3.4.1


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[gentoo-user] Re: authorization faliure when sending email

[Francesco Talamona]

On Monday 05 September 2005 17:37, Matthew Lee wrote:
> Packages removed by --depclean
> knetattach-3.4.1 (reemerged)
> kxkb-3.4.1
> kdcop-3.4.1
> ksysguard-3.4.1
> kappfinder-3.4.1
> kfind-3.4.1. (reemerged)
> kdebugdialog-3.4.1
> kpager-3.4.1
> ksystraycmd-3.4.1
> kstart-3.4.1
> ktip-3.4.1
> kdepasswd-3.4.1

I think kdepasswd may be the stopper, try to emerge it again. Not sure, 
though.

Ciao
	Francesco

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