OT Sendmail and Motorola smartphones

Alex Neuman alex at vidadigital.com.pa
Fri Apr 20 17:53:15 IST 2012


That's odd. Normally that depends on the *server* and not the client.

On Thu, Apr 19, 2012 at 2:14 PM, Steve Campbell <campbell at cnpapers.com> wrote:
> It's solved. Turns out the old phones required just the user name while the
> new Motorola phones require the complete email address in the Username
> field.
>
> Thanks for all the help from everyone.
>
> steve
>
> On 4/18/2012 3:37 PM, Alex Neuman wrote:
>>
>> I saw a client the other day (Samsung) whose settings included
>> "encryption", which could be set to "None", "TLS", "SSL" and "Use SSL
>> but don't care about the fact that it's a self-signed certificate". If
>> I didn't choose the last option it wouldn't work. Most mail clients on
>> mobiles have this option, albeit with different names.
>>
>> On Tue, Apr 17, 2012 at 7:07 PM, Rabellino Sergio<rabellino at di.unito.it>
>>  wrote:
>>>
>>> I think that the motorola client is failing the SSL handshake, and drop
>>> the connection to the smtps. double check the ca certificates on the client
>>> to be sure that the server cert is well known.
>>> The sendmail error shown it's fired when the client breaks without
>>> sending anything on the smtp protocol...
>>>
>>> hope this helps.
>>>
>>> --
>>> Ing. Sergio Rabellino
>>>
>>> Il giorno 18/apr/2012, alle ore 01:32, Steve
>>> Campbell<campbell at cnpapers.com>  ha scritto:
>>>
>>>> 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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