Am 15.04.2010 20:53, schrieb Chris Bennett:
quoted text > On 04/15/10 12:00,
chris@bennettconstruction.biz wrote:
>> I am going to continue this on ports, my mistake earlier
>>
>> I created a new profile, but I still can't get thunderbird 3 to accept
>> my self-signed certificate for sendmail TLS.
>> It asks for me to confirm that the certificate should be used as a
>> permanent exception (just as previous thunderbird did at first setup or
>> after making new certificates on my server.
>>
>> Sending of message failed.
>> An error occurred sending mail: Unable to authenticate to SMTP server
>> bennettconstruction.us. It does not support authentication (SMTP-AUTH)
>> but you have chosen to use authentication. Uncheck 'Use name and
>> password' for that server or contact your service provider.
>>
>>
>> I am unwilling to use an email system without encrypting passwords since
>> these are valid usernames on the server.
>> I have no problem receiving mail
>>
>>
> This is my second try at sending this, the first try caused
> thunderbird to crash with an abort trap from some missing spelling
> module.
>
> Thunderbird 2 needed a username and password to send SMTP with TLS
> Thunderbird 3 refuses to have a username and password to send SMTP
> with TLS
> So now I can send
>
> Which one is broken?
> Thunderbird 2?
> or Thunderbird 3?
> Both?
I would suspect your smtp server (and Thunderbird 2).
Here is why: It is known that Thunderbird 3 will no longer send mail if
you entered an username and password and the server does not support
smtp-auth. Tunderbird 2 does not care and tries to send anyway, and that
is exactly the behaviour you described here.
HTH,
Markus Hennecke
