Topic: Need help getting mail to Verizon DSL SMTP - wants authentic

[PistonPilot]

I'm having a hell of a time with an e-smith 6.0 on a Verizon DSL line.  I've tried nearly every variation I can find in the mail setup but nothing works.  .My mail bounces back with a relaying error and is denied.

I called Verizon DSL and their email smtp outgoing.verizon.net wants authentication.  

How can I get the e-smith server to periodically authenticate with the smtp server outgoing.verizon.net so I can pass it my outgoing emails?

[Judd Stohl]

On your email client set the outgoing email server to your e-smith server.  The e-smith server will relay the messages for you.  This way you do not need to relay your from Verizon's outgoing smtp server.  

Hope this helps,
-Judd

[Robert Devantier]

I am having the same problem with the e-mail servers that SBC uses.  While it is a good suggestion to use the SME server for outgoing SMTP, it doesn't always work.  A lot of ISPs and especially AOL are now denying any SMTP traffic from residential/dynamic IP numbers.  So SME needs to use the ISP's e-mail as a helper - but it requires authentication.

An even greater evil is that SBC also requires the sender's reply address be the SBC e-mail account.  So even if I could get it working, I cannot have the reply-to address meet the requirement.  The company that hosts mydomain.com will allow me to upstream to their SMTP, but I need to authenticate with them.

Summary:
client -> SME SMTP -> user@aol.com : Fail, non-authorized SMTP.
client -> SME SMTP -> SBC SMTP -> user@aol.com : Fail, authentication required at SBC.
client@mydomain.com -> SBC SMTP -> user@aol.com : Fail, non-SBC account.
client@sbc.com -> SBC SMTP -> user@aol.com : Successfull, but not the desirable configuration.
client -> SME SMTP -> Hosting SMTP -> user@aol.com : Would work if I could authenticate.

In my case, the hosting company created a POP account that I need to check every 15 minutes or so.  That will keep the public IP of my SME server (and it's users) in their authenticated list.  I am going to mess with a test box of SME and see if I can get this all working.

Let the confusion begin...
Robert