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I have two mail accounts on the same server, each with a Eudora personality. One account is my main account which is used for sending and receiving mail, which I do with no problems. The other account is only used for sending mail; I never check its mail, and don't want to check its mail. I used to be able to do this with no trouble, but now whenever I try to send mail I get the following error: "Couldn't send message; server says 550 SMTP AUTH required before submission". Both personalities have the same SSL and sending mail settings ("Allow authorization" is checked.) The only difference seems to be that on the main account, mail is checked as well as sent, while on the other account, mail is never checked. Is there something else I'm missing? Why won't this work? Thanks Alan I would ask the ISP first, re the difference between my two accounts (no, they are not "identical," because they have different login names, which at the ISP end can have different properties). -- By the way, if you have two accounts with the same ISP, why not always use the same working outgoing account? (that's what "SMTP Relay" is for -- to use one working SMTP path for all personalities). -- > I would ask the ISP first, re the difference between my two accounts > (no, they are not "identical," because they have different login names, > which at the ISP end can have different properties). Thanks. While the two accounts aren't functionally different, this did get me thinking about my settings again, and it turns out that on the second account, the "User name" was set to the real name rather than the login name of the account. Since this was in the "checking mail" part of the preferences and I was never checking mail for that account, I hadn't noticed the problem. Fixing this fixed the problem. > By the way, if you have two accounts with the same ISP, > why not always use the same working outgoing account? > (that's what "SMTP Relay" is for -- to use one working > SMTP path for all personalities). For my purposes, it doesn't make much difference now. Thanks again. Alan > I have two mail accounts on the same server, each with a Eudora > personality. [quoted text clipped - 15 lines] > > Is there something else I'm missing? Why won't this work? I would try checking its mail once. That has worked for me. Roberta  SignatureRoberta Millstein usenet@spamaway.rlm.net Remove "spamaway" to reply -- Posted via a free Usenet account from http://www.teranews.com > > I have two mail accounts on the same server, each with a Eudora > > personality. [quoted text clipped - 17 lines] > > I would try checking its mail once. That has worked for me. Thanks. I knew that this would work, but (for independent reasons) didn't want to ever check mail for this account. But your message and another posting got me back to checking the "checking mail" settings for the account in questions, which it turns out were incorrect. Fixing this solved the problem. Thanks for your help. Alan > I would try checking its mail once. That has worked for me. > > [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > the account in questions, which it turns out were incorrect. Fixing > this solved the problem. Yeah, it's a bit of an oddity -- you wouldn't think that the "checking mail" settings matter if you're not checking mail and only sending, but they (obviously) do matter. Glad to hear you've got things working again. (As you've probably guessed, I don't use the "relay personality" either. I know I had a reason at the time for doing things this way, but I no longer remember what it was). Roberta SignatureRoberta Millstein usenet@spamaway.rlm.net Remove "spamaway" to reply -- Posted via a free Usenet account from http://www.teranews.com On Sun, 20 Jan 2008 21:24:53 -0600: > You wouldn't think that the "checking mail" settings matter > if you're not checking mail and only sending, > but they (obviously) do matter. Because "checking" is where the "User [login] name" appears, which does not appear again in the "sending" settings category (only one "User [login] name" is provided per personality, which is why one has to "use an SMTP relay personality" to define any different user name for sending than for receiving). It's probably the Eudora manual author's fault that someone would enter his spelled-out name into the "User [login] name" field, because the illustration in the manual, under "Getting started," shows "Arnold Palmer" (well, actually there's a small "." between the first and last name, but whose reading glasses are sharp enough to spot that? :) -- |
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