 Interesting... /home/oldbaldh/public_html/periodic/cron.php gave me this error below... in an email
SMTP Error: Could not authenticate.
Yet, the smtp mailer sends test emails just fine...
Message From the Old Bald Hippie
Any ideas where else this could be lurking?
Thanks!
Peer
Peer L. Plaut Executive Director, Single Booklovers Connecting Bookworms Since 1970 |
What email server are you using? Not able to authenticate means that when it went to login, it failed. If you are sending email from Dolphin to a mail server, the mail server is probably set up so that you need to authenticate before the mail server will allow you to relay mail from your server to the mail server and then out to the recipient. It depends on how you have set up sending mail on your Dolphin installation. Edit: On reading again, I see you are using the SMTP Mailer module; so you are using an external mail server and relaying mail through that server from your Dolphin installation. Geeks, making the world a better place |
If the message means that the email server could not authenticate you as being allowed to relay mail, then it should fail on all emails that you try to send.
I have set up mail servers a few times now and I find it one of the more unpleasant tasks. What would be nice is if the SMTP protocol was rewritten to be secured. However, they won't because it would mean that all the mail servers on the internet using SMTP would have to be redone. However, it is a bad dish that will need to be eaten at some time. Geeks, making the world a better place |
