Cannot send email using email client - will work using telnet

[Charles H. Deling]

I am netqmail-1.06 and I have patched it for tls and authentication
Using thunderbird version 2 or version 3, I get an error message from
thunderbird:
"The server may be unavailable or is refusing SMTP connections"
Considering the same email clients

If I use telnet to connect to port 25 on the server I can manually type
in an email.

I set up recordio, and this is what was logged when using an email
client (that was configured not to use authentication or tls):

  400000004abfd74c148c7d8c 28439 > 220 luke.softwareeffect.com ESMTP
  400000004abfd74c275f2b94 28439 < EHLO yoda.softwareeffect.com
  400000004abfd74c2760e4fc 28439 > 250-luke.softwareeffect.com
  400000004abfd74c2760e8e4 28439 > 250-PIPELINING
  400000004abfd74c2760eccc 28439 > 250-8BITMIME
  400000004abfd74c2760f0b4 28439 > 250 STARTTLS
  400000004abfd74c2760f49c 28439 > 250-SIZE 30000000
  400000004abfd74c2760f49c 28439 > 250 AUTH LOGIN PLAIN CRAM-MD5
  400000004abfd74c2760f884 28439 > 250 AUTH=LOGIN PLAIN CRAM-MD5
  400000004abfd74c290c3784 28439 < MAIL FROM:<charles@...>
  400000004abfd74c290d3184 28439 > 250 ok
@400000004abfd74c2ab7e3e4 28439 < [EOF]
@400000004abfd74c2abc355c 28439 > [EOF]

At this point I have the error message from the email client

Using telnet:
  400000004abfd9b6184510ec 4958 > 220 luke.softwareeffect.com ESMTP
  400000004abfd9ba30601dfc 4958 < ehlo localhost
  400000004abfd9ba3062872c 4958 > 250-luke.softwareeffect.com
  400000004abfd9ba30628b14 4958 > 250-PIPELINING
  400000004abfd9ba30628b14 4958 > 250-8BITMIME
  400000004abfd9ba30628efc 4958 > 250 STARTTLS
  400000004abfd9ba30628efc 4958 > 250-SIZE 30000000
  400000004abfd9ba306292e4 4958 > 250 AUTH LOGIN PLAIN CRAM-MD5
  400000004abfd9cc28a4c70c 4958 < mail from: charles@...
  400000004abfd9cc28a7286c 4958 > 250 ok
  400000004abfd9e52efaf07c 4958 < rcpt to: chdsee@...
  400000004abfd9e52efd6564 4958 > 250 ok
  400000004abfd9e811a7dfe4 4958 < data
  400000004abfd9e811bb7b6c 4958 > 354 go ahead
  400000004abfd9eb19412044 4958 < Subject: test
  400000004abfd9eb2debd23c 4958 <
  400000004abfd9ec29f6f544 4958 < test
  400000004abfd9ed39df643c 4958 < .
  400000004abfd9ed3ad6f33c 4958 > 250 ok 1254087139 qp 4960
  400000004abfd9ef02883b44 4958 < quit
  400000004abfd9ef028a620c 4958 > 221 luke.softwareeffect.com
@400000004abfd9ef0292a354 4958 > [EOF]

Any suggestions?? TIA!!!

[Erwin Hoffmann]

Hi,


--On Sonntag, 27. September 2009 17:39 -0400 "Charles H. Deling"
<charles@...> wrote:

> I am netqmail-1.06 and I have patched it for tls and authentication
> Using thunderbird version 2 or version 3, I get an error message from
> thunderbird:
> "The server may be unavailable or is refusing SMTP connections"
> Considering the same email clients
>
> If I use telnet to connect to port 25 on the server I can manually type
> in an email.
>
> I set up recordio, and this is what was logged when using an email client
> (that was configured not to use authentication or tls):

>
> At this point I have the error message from the email client
>
> Using telnet:
>   400000004abfd9b6184510ec 4958 > 220 luke.softwareeffect.com ESMTP
>   400000004abfd9ba30601dfc 4958 < ehlo localhost
>   400000004abfd9ba3062872c 4958 > 250-luke.softwareeffect.com
>   400000004abfd9ba30628b14 4958 > 250-PIPELINING
>   400000004abfd9ba30628b14 4958 > 250-8BITMIME
>   400000004abfd9ba30628efc 4958 > 250 STARTTLS
>   400000004abfd9ba30628efc 4958 > 250-SIZE 30000000
>   400000004abfd9ba306292e4 4958 > 250 AUTH LOGIN PLAIN CRAM-MD5
>   400000004abfd9cc28a4c70c 4958 < mail from: charles@...
>   400000004abfd9cc28a7286c 4958 > 250 ok
>   400000004abfd9e52efaf07c 4958 < rcpt to: chdsee@...
>   400000004abfd9e52efd6564 4958 > 250 ok
>   400000004abfd9e811a7dfe4 4958 < data
>   400000004abfd9e811bb7b6c 4958 > 354 go ahead
>   400000004abfd9eb19412044 4958 < Subject: test
>   400000004abfd9eb2debd23c 4958 <
>   400000004abfd9ec29f6f544 4958 < test
>   400000004abfd9ed39df643c 4958 < .
>   400000004abfd9ed3ad6f33c 4958 > 250 ok 1254087139 qp 4960
>   400000004abfd9ef02883b44 4958 < quit
>   400000004abfd9ef028a620c 4958 > 221 luke.softwareeffect.com
> @400000004abfd9ef0292a354 4958 > [EOF]

This sample does not help, since you are not using authentication.

Pls. read: http://www.fehcom.de/qmail/smtpauth.html

regards.
--eh.