Okay, slightly odd setup here. Friend of mine spent a long time with no broadband, so she used to come over, use our PC and also had he own e-mail address from the block that our ISP issue. Now she has her own broadband but didn't want to change e-mail address.
Getting e-mail works fine, sending fails becuase VM won't relay mail for you unless you are on one of their broadbands.
Well okay, thats perfectly sensible and is the same issue I had when getting my phone to be able to send e-mail. Being the geek that I am, I just happen to have a SMTP server laying around, so that is set up to relay mail to my ISP's mail server. Not wanting to become the spammers best friend, it requires secure password authentication and an SSL connection. From my phone this works with no problems.
Initially from her machine it was failing saying that the server didn't support SSL. Today I finally tracked that down to Avast. It was trying to act as a proxy so it could scan outgoing e-mails but wasn't expecting an SSL connection on port 25. I have by-passed that problem by telling it not to interfere with connections to my mail server.
So, now we arrive at my current problem. Her preferred mail client (Incredimail) won't authenticate to my server. I have tried SPA and, after enabling it on my server, basic authentication. Both give the same result, Incredimail just pops up the password request again. However, Windows Live Mail works using SPA. I am confused. Surely Incredimail can't be soooo bad that this feature just doesn't work? Hopefully someone here will be able to help. Otherwise I'll have to wait for SuperUser to go public![]()


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