Problems sending mails with non-Dominant personalities

[cabrini]

Hi,

hope anybody out there can help me. my problem is:

i got 3 personalities in Eudora 5.1.1. now. Receiving emails works for all accounts but with the other two accounts i can't send emails. All accounts are Pop-accounts from the same Provider. Server for incoming mails is pop.gmx.net, server for outgoing ones (SMTP) is mail.gmx.net ! Login name is the account's customer number.

Error messages are:

451 {mp025} Need to authenticate via SMTP-AUTH-Login

AND

503 {mp025} MAIL first

As i use the same settings (except the login name of course) for all accounts i really have no idea why it doesn't work !

 

[jrbarnett]

Hi,

Go into Eudora and click the Personalities tab. Right click on your personality that has problems and choose properties.
Put a tick in the "Authentication Allowed" box just under the SMTP server name then click OK.

John

 

[cabrini]

Hi,

thanks for your advise but this doesn't work. I already tried it before ... This problems seems quite tricky as i use the same settings for all accounts (apart from adress and login nummer etc.) as all accounts are exactly from the same free-webmail provider ...

 

[jrbarnett]

From what you say I think I know what is wrong.

If the account is primarily a webmail facility, with POP3 as an addon, then the chances are quite considerable that the SMTP servers will only allow connections from the IP addresses of web servers that handle the webmail, which your PC won't have.

POP3 can work anywhere as the protocol requires the user to login to the server, but SMTP doesn't.
Have you tried putting the SMTP server from the account that you can send from into the address of the ones that you can't send from and see if this makes any difference (having said that, if they are all from the same provider, and you are using the same ISP then I would expect this to fail as well).

John