Spam Filter ISP Forums : SMTP AUTH for MAC OSX Mail.app https://www.logsat.com/spamfilter/forums/ Tue, 10 Mar 2026 21:03:27 +0000 Sat, 28 Apr 2007 22:46:04 +0000 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Web Wiz Forums 11.04 360 https://www.logsat.com/spamfilter/forums/RSS_post_feed.asp?TID=5796 <![CDATA[Spam Filter ISP Forums]]> https://www.logsat.com/spamfilter/forums/forum_images/web_wiz_forums.png https://www.logsat.com/spamfilter/forums/ <![CDATA[SMTP AUTH for MAC OSX Mail.app : We not support CRAM-MD5 yet, sorry... ...]]> https://www.logsat.com/spamfilter/forums/forum_posts.asp?TID=5796&PID=10075&title=smtp-auth-for-mac-osx-mailapp#10075 Author: LogSat
Subject: 5796
Posted: 28 April 2007 at 10:46pm

We not support CRAM-MD5 yet, sorry...]]> Sat, 28 Apr 2007 22:46:04 +0000 https://www.logsat.com/spamfilter/forums/forum_posts.asp?TID=5796&PID=10075&title=smtp-auth-for-mac-osx-mailapp#10075 <![CDATA[SMTP AUTH for MAC OSX Mail.app : 250-AUTH LOGIN CRAM-MD5 250 OK...]]> https://www.logsat.com/spamfilter/forums/forum_posts.asp?TID=5796&PID=10074&title=smtp-auth-for-mac-osx-mailapp#10074 Author: WebGuyz
Subject: 5796
Posted: 28 April 2007 at 10:13pm

250-AUTH LOGIN CRAM-MD5 250 OK

I believe the issue is the bolded above. This is what I get when my MAC's attempt to login to our Smartermail server and are successful.

I don't think it was PLAIN that needed to be added, but rather CRAM-MD5.

But I don't know for sure...


 

]]> Sat, 28 Apr 2007 22:13:54 +0000 https://www.logsat.com/spamfilter/forums/forum_posts.asp?TID=5796&PID=10074&title=smtp-auth-for-mac-osx-mailapp#10074 <![CDATA[SMTP AUTH for MAC OSX Mail.app : Hi all, I still have a problem...]]> https://www.logsat.com/spamfilter/forums/forum_posts.asp?TID=5796&PID=10072&title=smtp-auth-for-mac-osx-mailapp#10072 Author: jemmie
Subject: 5796
Posted: 28 April 2007 at 12:31pm

Hi all,

I still have a problem to send mail from a mac with mail.app. When I send mail the log file from SFI show only the next two line:

04/28/07 17:02:33:189 -- (8448) Connection from: XX.XX.XX.XX  -  Originating country : Netherlands
04/28/07 17:02:33:209 -- (8448) Disconnect

The debug view shows the next lines:

>>EHLO [XX.XX.XX.XX]

<<250-AUTH LOGIN PLAIN

<<250-8BITMIME

<<250 HELP

When I try on the same mac to send mail from entourage there is no problem.

I am using version 3.5.3.662 in standard mode.

The version of the mac os is also the latest, 10.4.9, and mail.apps is version 2.1

Is there a difference between the enterprise mode and the standard mode that can cause this or does anyone have any other suggestion

Thanks already,

]]> Sat, 28 Apr 2007 12:31:46 +0000 https://www.logsat.com/spamfilter/forums/forum_posts.asp?TID=5796&PID=10072&title=smtp-auth-for-mac-osx-mailapp#10072 <![CDATA[SMTP AUTH for MAC OSX Mail.app : You probably did. You should update...]]> https://www.logsat.com/spamfilter/forums/forum_posts.asp?TID=5796&PID=9842&title=smtp-auth-for-mac-osx-mailapp#9842 Author: WebGuyz
Subject: 5796
Posted: 08 March 2007 at 4:49pm

You probably did. You should update that info on that option and mention that if they use it their Mac's will stop working. ]]> Thu, 08 Mar 2007 16:49:28 +0000 https://www.logsat.com/spamfilter/forums/forum_posts.asp?TID=5796&PID=9842&title=smtp-auth-for-mac-osx-mailapp#9842 <![CDATA[SMTP AUTH for MAC OSX Mail.app : Darn, that actually is practically...]]> https://www.logsat.com/spamfilter/forums/forum_posts.asp?TID=5796&PID=9841&title=smtp-auth-for-mac-osx-mailapp#9841 Author: LogSat
Subject: 5796
Posted: 08 March 2007 at 4:08pm

Darn, that actually is practically the *only* setting in SpamFilter that requires a restart of SpamFilter (with the exception of the listening IP/port, unless changed via the GUI)... Sorry! I thought I had documented that somewhere...

]]> Thu, 08 Mar 2007 16:08:27 +0000 https://www.logsat.com/spamfilter/forums/forum_posts.asp?TID=5796&PID=9841&title=smtp-auth-for-mac-osx-mailapp#9841 <![CDATA[SMTP AUTH for MAC OSX Mail.app : Roberto, My apologies for jumping...]]> https://www.logsat.com/spamfilter/forums/forum_posts.asp?TID=5796&PID=9840&title=smtp-auth-for-mac-osx-mailapp#9840 Author: WebGuyz
Subject: 5796
Posted: 08 March 2007 at 2:50pm

Roberto,

  My apologies for jumping the gun. The test case works fine after I removed the option:

AddIncorrectAUTHLOGINEHLOEntry=1

What screwed me up was that this entry does not work until you start/stop SF. I was troubleshooting my Mac issue and during the course of troubleshooting made the change above but did not restart SF, thinking that it would get picked up by the regular check of spamfilter.ini like all the other option changes. Not so.

What happened was my customers were at first having problems and I made that change and then I started getting reports that the MAC's were working! I thought the above change made the difference!! More then likely it was arp cache or something like that.

That night we did some OS patches and had to reboot the server. next day, all the Macs were broken again.

What I did not realize is that the reboot forced SF to start using the above option and 'broke' the MAC's.

After I removed it today and realized that it was not changing until I restarted did it dawn on me what happened.

What was worse was I came across that old post about MAC's not working and made the wrong assumptions.

Sometimes I think I'm my own worst enemy .....

]]> Thu, 08 Mar 2007 14:50:33 +0000 https://www.logsat.com/spamfilter/forums/forum_posts.asp?TID=5796&PID=9840&title=smtp-auth-for-mac-osx-mailapp#9840 <![CDATA[SMTP AUTH for MAC OSX Mail.app : The reason I added that was because...]]> https://www.logsat.com/spamfilter/forums/forum_posts.asp?TID=5796&PID=9839&title=smtp-auth-for-mac-osx-mailapp#9839 Author: WebGuyz
Subject: 5796
Posted: 08 March 2007 at 12:51pm

The reason I added that was because of this problem and thought maybe it would help. Will try removing it and see if I can talk a Mac user into trying this. They are all mad at me right now ;-)]]> Thu, 08 Mar 2007 12:51:03 +0000 https://www.logsat.com/spamfilter/forums/forum_posts.asp?TID=5796&PID=9839&title=smtp-auth-for-mac-osx-mailapp#9839 <![CDATA[SMTP AUTH for MAC OSX Mail.app : That is really odd, as it shows...]]> https://www.logsat.com/spamfilter/forums/forum_posts.asp?TID=5796&PID=9838&title=smtp-auth-for-mac-osx-mailapp#9838 Author: LogSat
Subject: 5796
Posted: 08 March 2007 at 11:10am

That is really odd, as it shows that the client is indeed using the AUTH LOGIN command, and not the AUTH PLAIN.

What I do see is that you configured SpamFilter to output an incorrect line in the EHLO response, the one that says "AUTH=LOGIN" This was added to support buggy clients, but is invalid:

;Some older email clients have a bug that requires them to see "AUTH=LOGIN" inthe EHLo response rather than "AUTH LOGIN". Set this to 1 to add the incorrectsyntax to the EHLO output
AddIncorrectAUTHLOGINEHLOEntry=0

Can you try to go back to the default (which disables the incorrect output) to see if that helps?
]]> Thu, 08 Mar 2007 11:10:55 +0000 https://www.logsat.com/spamfilter/forums/forum_posts.asp?TID=5796&PID=9838&title=smtp-auth-for-mac-osx-mailapp#9838 <![CDATA[SMTP AUTH for MAC OSX Mail.app : Didn&#039;t seem to help. I finally...]]> https://www.logsat.com/spamfilter/forums/forum_posts.asp?TID=5796&PID=9833&title=smtp-auth-for-mac-osx-mailapp#9833 Author: WebGuyz
Subject: 5796
Posted: 08 March 2007 at 9:55am

Didn't seem to help. I finally had to set up a port for the MAC users and had my firewall redirect it to the SmarterMail server and there they could connect and authenticate. Here is the conversation from Smartermail to my Mac User;

08:38:12 [xx.xx.xx.xx][26824636] cmd: EHLO [xx.xx.xx.xx]
08:38:12 [xx.xx.xx.xx][26824636] rsp: 250-mail01 Hello [xx.xx.xx.xx] 250-SIZE 36700160 250-AUTH LOGIN CRAM-MD5 250 OK
08:38:12 [xx.xx.xx.xx][26824636] cmd: AUTH LOGIN
08:38:12 [xx.xx.xx.xx][26824636] rsp: 334 VXNlcm5hbWU6
08:38:12 [xx.xx.xx.xx][26824636] rsp: 334 UGFzc3dvcmQ6
08:38:12 [xx.xx.xx.xx][26824636] rsp: 235 Authentication successful

Here is the conversation using debug view between the Mac and SFE version you uploaded:

>>EHLO [xxx.xx.xx.xx]
<<250-AUTH LOGIN PLAIN
<<250-AUTH=LOGIN
<<250-8BITMIME
<<250-SIZE 35840000
<<250 HELP

It seems like the Mac doesn't know what to do so it disconnects. No more conversation after SFE sends its info.

 

]]> Thu, 08 Mar 2007 09:55:10 +0000 https://www.logsat.com/spamfilter/forums/forum_posts.asp?TID=5796&PID=9833&title=smtp-auth-for-mac-osx-mailapp#9833 <![CDATA[SMTP AUTH for MAC OSX Mail.app : ...well, no authentication should...]]> https://www.logsat.com/spamfilter/forums/forum_posts.asp?TID=5796&PID=9831&title=smtp-auth-for-mac-osx-mailapp#9831 Author: LogSat
Subject: 5796
Posted: 07 March 2007 at 10:48pm

...well, no authentication should revert to "basic" SMTP without using the AUTH extensions, and thus without authentication.
If you specify "password" that should allow them to specify username/password, and hopefully the new AUTH PLAIN will work with older Mac clients.
]]> Wed, 07 Mar 2007 22:48:47 +0000 https://www.logsat.com/spamfilter/forums/forum_posts.asp?TID=5796&PID=9831&title=smtp-auth-for-mac-osx-mailapp#9831