Groups | Search | Server Info | Keyboard shortcuts | Login | Register [http] [https] [nntp] [nntps]

Groups > sci.electronics.design > #447653

Re: Eudora Email Problems

Show all headers | View raw

On 2/14/2017 9:58 AM, Joseph Gwinn wrote:
> On Feb 14, 2017, rickman wrote
> (in article <o7uk7d$bi8$1@dont-email.me>):
>
>> I don't typically have any trouble with Eudora... it just works. But
>> once in a while the handshake with the server will stop working. I end
>> up having to contact my web hosting provider and we change some settings
>> and get it back on track. But I never understand why the changes were
>> needed. The provider claims nothing has happened at their end.
>>
>> This has happened again. I can receive but not send emails. I've
>> narrowed it down to not being able to send to outside email addresses.
>> I thought I was seeing something relating to the email account I was
>> sending from, but it turns out to be the same across the accounts. Here
>> is the error message.
>>
>> "Can't send to ''. The server gives this reason: '550 without
>> authentication.'."
>>
>> I exchanged a number of messages with support, but I haven't heard back
>> from them since I found it was connected to the destination email address.
>>
>> This is a bit odd. Could it be that authentication somehow is messed up
>> when sending emails outside your own server?
>>
>> At one point we had submission port 587 enabled along with SSL, but
>> Eudora says the certificate didn't match the destination host. Even
>> odder is that it says the error is ignored because the certificate is
>> "trusted", but the connection timed out. It presents a dialog asking if
>> the certificate should be trusted in future sessions, but it doesn't
>> matter what I select there, it always fails again.
>>
>> Is Eudora getting too old to work well in the current environment?
>
> I used Eudora for many years, stopping only when Apple dropped support for
> non-Intel binaries.
>
> The most likely problem is that the ISP is now enforcing password
> authentication for sending mail, to cut down on spam generation. The ISP is
> probably requiring use of other than the default SMTP port. Go to your
> ISP’s POP account setup instructions, and reapply them.

Yes, I've been doing everything I can to get this to work.  Their 
instructions are to use the standard ports, 25 for SMTP outgoing.  They 
claim nothing has changed.  What I know is that Eudora had been set to 
use the alternate port 587 (with authentication) before the problem 
started.  Now this fails.  When SSL is turned on there is a problem with 
their certificate which Eudora doesn't seem to handle properly and so 
also fails.

I got an email from them this morning saying in essence if I want to use 
a "current" email client they will help me.  Otherwise f*** off.

-- 

Rick C

Back to sci.electronics.design | Previous | Next — Previous in thread | Next in thread | Find similar | Unroll thread

Thread

Eudora Email Problems rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2017-02-14 04:57 -0500
  Re: Eudora Email Problems bill.sloman@ieee.org - 2017-02-14 03:30 -0800
    Re: Eudora Email Problems rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2017-02-14 07:45 -0500
      Re: Eudora Email Problems bill.sloman@ieee.org - 2017-02-14 06:04 -0800
  Re: Eudora Email Problems Joseph Gwinn <joegwinn@comcast.net> - 2017-02-14 09:58 -0500
    Re: Eudora Email Problems rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2017-02-14 12:59 -0500
  Re: Eudora Email Problems Jeff Liebermann <jeffl@cruzio.com> - 2017-02-14 07:53 -0800

csiph-web