I was thinking about this last night. Do you have your qmail-smtpd setup to do authentication? If so, it might require your netscape to do smtp authentication. On Thu, 2001-09-06 at 08:14, Dave wrote: > >The pop method is invisible to the Mail User Agent so > >Netscape has no problem with it. > > Thus users can receive messages fine > > >When you setup Netscape there is a way to type in your > >user name to send to the smtp server. If you do that, > >netscape assumes there is smtp authentication. If you > >do not type anything in for user/smtp server, then it > >does not try. > > If you leave the Outgoing Mail(SMTP) field blank, messanger complains that it > needs a name to be entered. If you enter the name, then it complains that it > needs an account, if you enter the account it tries to authenticate via SMTP. > > I am not referring to the incoming mail being able to select POP or SMTP, > obviously that is set to POP and works fine. Sounds like you have qmail-smtpd compiled to do authentication. Netscape automatically detects it and requires the user to put in a name. Nothing to do with vpopmail. > > >If you want to use the pop method don't tell netscape > >to try the smtp authentication method. > > Again, if we are talking retrieval, it is set to POP and retrieves just fine > from vpopmail... however it cant send, and I don't see where you can tell it > not to use SMTP without it complaining. Try the stock qmail-smtpd. > > >If you want to use smtp authentication then give netscape > >the smtp user name values. > > Obviously not an option with the current configuration with vchkpw doing the > auth... It works for me, you must be doing something different. > > >So it sounds like your problem is Netscape is not configured > >for what ever method you are trying to use. > <clipped> > >All the releases back to the first ones that supported roaming > >users has worked with netscape. I know because I used netscape > >as my MUA. All current releases also work. > > would love to know what your configuration settings are for netscape then. > (currently working with a customer using communicator 4.73) > > Appreciate the response. Did you patch qmail-smtpd to have authentication? What patched code did you use? What exact line do you use to run your smtpd server? Ken Jones
