Craig.

-----Original Message----- From: IMail_Forum-owner@list.ipswitch.com [mailto:IMail_Forum-owner@list.ipswitch.com]On Behalf Of Oblio Sent: Wednesday, March 14, 2001 7:51 PM To: IMail_Forum@list.ipswitch.com Cc: Len Conrad Subject: [IMail Forum] Attn, Eudora Users

After chasing difficulties with SMTP Auth on Eudora for a month and a half, I got this got this back from their tech support (or rather their developers). I thought you all should be aware that the current Eudora can't authenticate on an IMail virtual domain account with an @ in the user account field.

<snip> This is one of those virtual domain accounts. His login name is actually "hexitsales@vital2web.com" and the POP/SMTP server is "mail.locustcreek.com". That would make his full account "hexitsales@vital2web.com@mail.locustcreek.com".

There's a bug that I fixed in 5.1 wrt to SMTP AUTH and these virtual domains. Basically what was happening was that Eudora was using "hexitsales" as the username for SMTP AUTH instead of "hexitsales@vital2web.com". 5.1 beta 10 has the fix in it. I was able to authenticate to both his SMTP (using CRAM-MD5 and LOGIN) and POP servers with the latest 5.1 build.

You can get around the bug with some mail servers in versions of Eudora before the fix: you just substitute the @ for a %. So he would set up his login name as "hexitsales%vital2web.com" and it should work fine in the version of Eudora he's currently running. This works for the IMail server he's connecting to, and I'm pretty sure it works for WorldMail servers as well. </snip>