Re: Email Filter at router? [K9 help?]

From: John Gray (nospam_at_invalid.com)
Date: 01/10/04 

Date: Sat, 10 Jan 2004 02:13:52 GMT

In article <95HLb.68523$1g41.50898@twister01.bloor.is.net.cable.rogers.com>,
Craig craig6731@hotmail.comsays...
> Actually, K9 will "autoconfigure", and that includes changing from "use the
> same settings" to the full smtp name, with the (presumably) default password
> (which must be the pre-existing pop password?). However, whenever I try to
> send from that account, OE asks to log on (using the full smtp path) but the
> existing password does not allow this - neither accepting the
> "autoconfigured" password, nor re-entering the pop password.

Have you looked at the tab for SMTP? If it is using the information from the
POP3 settings as changed by K9, then your SMTP server doesn't recognize the
pop3server/110/username as valid with your password? You can enter it until you
are blue in the face and the SMTP server you are connecting to will refuse the
connection as invalid. From the K9 web pages, there is no indication at all
that it configures anything but the POP3 settings in Outlook or OE. All
references there are to the POP3 settings. There is no need for K9 to bother
with SMTP settings, because K9 doesn't use SMTP at all. As a matter of fact,
there is nothing in the directions for configuring any email client's SMTP
settings. Reread the pages.

The reason that the SMTP server gets pop3server/110/username instead of
username(which it is expecting) and rejects the password as invalid is that the
POP3 settings for K9 in the email client are parsed by K9 before connecting to
the POP3 server. The POP3 server actually gets username and then password in
that order in response to prompts from the server as parsed by K9 to username ;
password.
 
> >
> > Right, just to make an example, let's suppose your mail account
> > is foo@bar.net and your password is "nutsandbolts", also your
> > SMTP server is configured to require authentication using the
> > same infos as for POP3 (above); after you install K9, the user
> > name will be changed to add the server/port so that K9 will be
> > able to connect to the POP3 server; at this point the same infos
> > will be used for SMTP which btw won't recognize the modifed
> > username; the solution is to uncheck the "use the same settings
> > as POP" and manually enter the username and password for the
> > SMTP server, this will allow POP3 filtering and SMTP sending
> >
> >
> >
>
>
> 

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