[wplug] Evolution: send with eth but not ppp

[Alexandros Papadopoulos]

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On Saturday 05 April 2003 10:40, Scott F Kiesling wrote:
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> Initially the error msg when I would try to send a mail was
> "authentication required." OK, so I found in evolution where you tell it
> to do that, and set it. Then I got the error msg "server des not support
> authentication type plain." So I went and tried to change the type, and
> chose the option for evolution to probe the server for acceptable
> authentication types. After that, none of the evolution options were
> available. Screwed, huh?
>
> 1. Why would the behavior be different from home and school?

Because at school you're getting a UPitt IP, which your mail servers treat as 
"trusted" and accept email from (with no authentication). When you're at 
home, your IP is as unkown to the Pitt servers as any IP on the net. Because 
of  open relay SMTP problems, that lead to unknown spammers getting away with 
it, most SMTP admins simply deny anything from a foreign IP that hasn't 
authenticated properly.

> 2. Is there any way to fix this, besides trying upgrading? (or just using
> pine on the pitt server from home, as I am doing now?)

If you have Kmail, try using it to establish what the server supports. There 
is a "check what this server supports" option under the "network" 
configuration tab. Check it out for other options that Evolution understands.

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