On Wed, 6 Feb 2002 10:15:56 +0000
Derek Fountain
On Wednesday 06 February 2002 9:55 am, you wrote:
One thing that struck me as odd about Yahoo's original e-mail was (a I recall), that it said that some MUA's were already correctly configured to use SMTP Auth - which seems to me to imply that the server could, at that time, accept both Auth and non-Auth mail. If, however, I try using Auth at the moment the posting is rejected.
Authentication is definitely switched on - on 29th Jan I switched my girlfriend's email details over to authenticated SMTP on Netscape, which is the client she uses. She grumbled that she now has to enter a password, but it all works correctly. I also set my own Netscape details and mine works too - I'm just not using it at the moment, but it's there and working when my hand is forced.
Thanks Derek. It is all rather weird then. When this issue arose I posted a question on the Sylpheed list as to whehter Auth was working under Sylpheed and several people confirmed that it was - including US users where, they tell me, Yahoo has been using Auth for some time. Regards, Geoff _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com