As mentioned in the above paragraph. All account except the host administrator account will give me a "not a gateway" error. So I change the authentication user and pass to my host admin account.

On 10/30/00 12:17 PM this was written:

> Len Conrad wrote: >> >>> Heyo - I'm having some trouble using Communicator on the Mac with >>> IMail smtp. On >> >> heyo Shinji, >> >>> Windows clients, just putting in the IMail server address and the >>> username ([username]%domain.com) works fine, but it produces relay >>> errors on the Mac. >>> >>> Does anyone have experience with this that could help me out? >> >> Ron here just said MS delivers crippled IE for Mac's so Mac's can't >> do SMTP AUTH. Maybe NS/Mac has the similar pb. >> >> But note that NS has also had pb's with SMTP AUTH on Win32 into Imail. >> >> What failure do you see in the Imail logs? > > Thanks for your response Len - I appreciate it! I don't, unfortunately, > have access to the IMail servers. They're being maintained by my web > hosting provider. > > I don't think it's a client software problem, as we're just talking > about basic user authentication, and this works fine with other mail > servers (For example, Worldmail and SLMail) with Mac e-mail clients > (Eudora, OE, Communicator). This trouble is specific to IMail. > > So all the information I have is this: when I configure the client to > use the IMail server for SMTP, and put in the username just as I would > in Windows, it returns a relay error ("not a gateway", etc.). Does this > indicate anything?

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