Tony Nelson wrote:
At 7:31 PM +0200 8/11/05, Duncan Lithgow wrote:
I've started getting this error in thunderbird, I thought I'd ask if
anyone has seen this before...
"An error occured while sending mail. The mail server responded: unknown
user. Please verify that your email address is correct in your Mail
preferences and try again."
It only happend sometimes and I'm not sure what the pattern is. Anyone
have an idea, and no it's not my Mail preference - it works fine most of
the time.
SElinux is disabled, and setting smtp as a trusted service didn't help
(i've set it back again)
I expect that you aren't sending through your own SMTP server, but through
a server provided by your ISP or MSP. This might be an authentication
issue with them. In my case, I'm using (the default) POP before SMTP hack,
where if I've checked mail "recently", I'm allowed to send mail. If I
haven't checked mail "recently" I get a scary error message that I'm
unknown.
If you are using some more sophisticated authentication, such as SMTP AUTH,
this probably isn't your problem.
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I've found the problem. Oddly enough it's one of the addresses in the
email I tried to send. Why it didn't just send them all out and let me
collect the bounced failures I don't know... I've spoken to the guy with
the address and got a valid address from him.
Still, odd problem.
