Mail refuses to send emails
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From: nyenyec on 4 Dec 2006 14:43 Hi, I have trouble setting up Mail to send any kind of email. My company has 2 servers. Server 1 uses IMAP/SSL + SMTP + SSL with authentication, Server 2 is an exchange server and uses plain SMTP with authentication. I can read emails from both of them but get all kinds of error messages when I try to send emails. E.g. "Cannot send message using the server (null)" "SMTP server XXXX doesn't support authentication." To see if this was a network or firewall problem I installed Thunderbird and Opera. I can use both SMTP servers from both Thunderbird and Opera Mail without a problem on the same machine. I also checked the Console but there were no error messages there. What next? -- nyenyec
From: Gerry on 4 Dec 2006 14:57 In article <1165261427.796127.210580(a)j44g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>, "nyenyec" <nyenyec(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > I have trouble setting up Mail to send any kind of email. > > My company has 2 servers. Server 1 uses IMAP/SSL + SMTP + SSL with > authentication, Server 2 is an exchange server and uses plain SMTP with > authentication. > > I can read emails from both of them but get all kinds of error messages > when I try to send emails. > > E.g. > > "Cannot send message using the server (null)" > "SMTP server XXXX doesn't support authentication." > > To see if this was a network or firewall problem I installed > Thunderbird and Opera. I can use both SMTP servers from both > Thunderbird and Opera Mail without a problem on the same machine. > > I also checked the Console but there were no error messages there. > > What next? > > -- nyenyec Go to Mail / Preferences / Accounts / Outgoing Mail Server (SMTP) / Server Settings / Authentication / select the option that fits your service.
From: nyenyec on 4 Dec 2006 15:04 Gerry wrote: > > Go to Mail / Preferences / Accounts / Outgoing Mail Server (SMTP) / > Server Settings / Authentication / select the option that fits your > service. That's the problem. I do have the correct server settings. The error messages I get are completely bogus. -- nyenyec
From: Gerry on 4 Dec 2006 15:14 In article <1165262699.736148.319630(a)79g2000cws.googlegroups.com>, "nyenyec" <nyenyec(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Gerry wrote: > > > > Go to Mail / Preferences / Accounts / Outgoing Mail Server (SMTP) / > > Server Settings / Authentication / select the option that fits your > > service. > > That's the problem. I do have the correct server settings. The error > messages I get are completely bogus. > > -- nyenyec The error message is not bogus it's telling you that somewhere in your setup you have entered the wrong information. Did you in the Authentication option select "None" if it is true your ISP does not need authentication. I would be surprised that an ISP would not have some form of authentication when sending email.
From: Adrian on 4 Dec 2006 15:22
Gerry <everyday(a)sunrise.net> wrote: > Did you in the Authentication option select "None" if it is true your > ISP does not need authentication. > > I would be surprised that an ISP would not have some form of > authentication when sending email. Some SMTP do not use authentication. Definitely the OP should try without authentication on the SMTP server. Leave password for POP though. -- Adrian |