OT Sendmail and Motorola smartphones

Steve Campbell campbell at cnpapers.com
Wed Apr 18 00:32:29 IST 2012


Quoting Scott Silva <ssilva at sgvwater.com>:

> on 4/16/2012 11:37 AM Ken A spake the following:
> >
> >
> > On 4/16/2012 11:20 AM, Steve Campbell wrote:
> >> Completely off topic - just curious if anyone has had problems similar.
> >>
> >> I've upgraded email servers from an old Centos 3 to a new Centos 6
> >> sendmail server. Just recently our company renewed it's contract and all
> >> smartphones were upgraded to the Motorola Milestone X2. These are used
> >> by our sales staff when they're out in the field and are allowed to
> >> relay through our servers using smtp auth.
> >>
> >> I have port 587 set up with smtp auth. I'm fairly certain that this was
> >> working shortly after the upgrade, but now smtp to this port does not
> >> work. It doesn't seem to matter what settings I put in the phone, my
> >> maillog returns:
> >>
> >> sendmail[2765]: q3GG1Gng002765: 70-32-205-105.unassigned.ntelos.net
> >> [70.32.205.105] did not issue MAIL/EXPN/VRFY/ETRN during connection to
> MSA.
> >
> > That usually means that the client isn't sending the authentication info -
> > user & pass.
> >
> > Do you have one of these new phones to test this with?
> >
> > You could turn up logging in sendmail -
> > define(`confLOG_LEVEL', `14')dnl
> >
> > Ken
> >
> >
> >> I don't think it's sendmail because the sendmail.mc is identical to the
> >> old server's file.
> >>
> >> I can set up an account using things like Thunderbird just fine, but
> >> then I'm using our network, but I'm still able to use port 587.
> >>
> >> Originally the problem was with one of the dnsbl I was using. (Seems
> >> that our provider had blocked their own IPs in one of the spamhaus.org
> >> RBLs to protect themselves from spam and using that blocked us from
> >> using the IPs they had assigned their smartphones). I switched from
> >> zen.spamhaus.org to sbl-xbl.spamhaus.org and that fixed it for a while.
> >>
> >> My main question is about the Motorola Milestone mail client. Anyone
> >> have an opinion on how reliable it is? Does it follow the settings I set
> >> on it and has anyone run into problems using this phone as I'm trying to
> >> use them?
> >>
> >> Thanks for any clues.
> >>
> >> steve campbell
> >>
> >>
> >
> I had something similar with some verizon android phones... the auth methods
> 
> the phone supported didn't mesh with the auth methods that saslauth
> allowed... 
> the md5 login wouldn't work, and the cram-md5 wouldn't either. I had to use a
> 
> different mail app on the phones...
> 
> 
> 
> -- 
I originally thought I might have something going on like that with these
Androids. But then, I'm not sure I have SASL set up properly anymore after all
the googling.

Thanks
steve



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