The Silent Woman
Jarod Wilson
jarod at wilsonet.com
Wed Apr 2 10:59:26 EDT 2008
On Wed, 2008-04-02 at 10:43 -0400, Neil Joseph Schelly wrote:
> On Wednesday 02 April 2008 10:29, Jim Kuzdrall wrote:
> > "Sending failed: Authorization failed, An error occurred during
> > authentication: SASL(-4): no mechanism available; No worthy mechs
> > found; authentication not supported."
>
> You're not looking at an OS, program, or connectivity problem at all. This is
> the message from the remote mail server telling you exactly what's wrong.
>
> Is she connecting to the mail server provided by her ISP or some other mail
> server? What's the ISP?
>
> It's tough to say without knowing more, but here's my guess. You're POPing
> mail from a third-party server and trying to send with that server as well,
> using authentication. Your ISP is blocking the traffic destined for the
> third-party mail server and rerouting it silently to their own. Their server
> doesn't support authentication, so your client is failing when it tries to
> send authentication information intended for the third party server.
>
> Sound familiar?
One of the many reasons my own mail server has port 10025 redirect to
port 25, and my laptops are set up to always use 10025. It gets around
both networks that outright deny access to port 25 and those that
silently redirect it. Obnoxious, but unfortunately somewhat necessary in
the age of spam and trojan'd spam spewers.
--
Jarod Wilson
jarod at wilsonet.com
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