On Sun, Apr 25, 2010 at 10:18:57AM -0700, mohamad rahimi wrote: > >> "Unable to authentication to SMTP server mx.mydomain. The server does not > > >support any compatible secure authentication mechanism but you have chosen > > >secure authentication. Try switching off secure authentication." > > >"Secure Authentication" means no plaintext passwords, i.e. GSSAPI, > >CRAM-MD5, ... Are you sure you have support for mechanisms other than > >"PLAIN"? If not, don't tell Thunderbird to try and use them... > > I am sure our mail server had the mechanisms for Secure Authentication.
What do you mean when you say this? Which non-plaintext SASL mechanisms does your server support, and how? > my question is that how can I understand that now our mail server > support this mechanisms and how can I run this. The above sentence does not make sense in English I am afraid. :-( -- P.S. Morgan Stanley is looking for a New York City based, Senior Unix system/email administrator to architect and sustain our perimeter email environment. If you are interested, please drop me a note.