No SMTP Authentication for Thunderbird or…

No SMTP Authentication for Thunderbird or Outlook?

Wow, this one is killing me. I have a Mini with Snow Leopard Server running mail. I use CRAM-MD5 authentication and SSL connections for both IMAP and SMTP.

I HAD to get a Windows 7 netbook to run QuickBooks and Office (not my choice), so now I'm trying to connect either the Outlook 2010 client or a Thunderbird client with one of my accounts so QuickBooks can send invoices, etc...

I was able to connect to IMAP with both clients using the SSL connection. I can't remember the level of authentication that worked for Thunderbird, but I had to drop to PLAIN for Outlook to work.

Now the hair-pulling problem... The SMTP authentication and connection methods don't work for either client. NONE of them in any combination. Even dropping SSL and going to PLAIN don't work.

Does anyone have any idea what this is all about?

Thanks.

MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.6.4), MacMini Server - latest Snow Leopard

Posted on Sep 12, 2010 9:22 AM

Nov 19, 2012 7:29 AM in response to jpawelchak

The forum software formatting implementation has corrupted various older postings, particularly when there are embedded underscores in the older postings. And embedded underscores are common with Postfix syntax.

I can't tell what you're entering there (reliably) and you haven't stated what problem(s) you're trying to solve, and what I do see posted is incorrect syntax. Your entered command was missing some of the necessary underscores, and didn't do what you wanted, and triggered that diagnostic to try to tell you about the error.

There's a somewhat-similar newer posting in this thread that looks to have correct formatting.

Also check the Postfix documentation, as it's pretty good, and it's quite detailed, there are good overviews of common operations, and it doesn't have the underscore-formatting glitch. In particular, see here and here for general syntax details and for specific spam-related settings akin to the HELO restrictions.

ps: In general, please start your own thread with your question and your OS X Server version, and refer back here with a link. You can't manage a thread you don't start, and we can also see if the forum formatting software also processes the underscores correctly in a new posting, too. AFAIK, it should. It was just the ported / converted / imported postings that got underscore-stomped.