[cobalt-users] RE: Email Setup Question

[Bob G7 <Bob_G7@xxxxxxxxxx>]

> Evening all, have a question on setting up email on a RaQ4 for
> some virtual sites I moved over to my server. The sites have
> propagated and are running fine. When I set them up, I set them
> up as follows.
>
> A record - domain.com with automatic reverse
> A record - www.domain.com with automatic reverse
> A record - mail.domain.com with automatic reverse
> MX record - domain.com and mail.domain.com, high
>
> Everything was setup just like when I setup the main site for this server.
>
> Copied the exact usernames & passwords when I set them up also.
>
> Now when I set them up into an POP email program (Outlook) I get
> this message:
>
> There was a problem logging onto your mail server. Your User Name
> was rejected. Account: 'XXXXX', Server: 'mail.domain.com',
> Protocol: POP3, Server Response: '-ERR [AUTH] You must use
> stronger authentication such as AUTH SCRAM-MD5 or APOP to connect
> to this server', Port: 110, Secure(SSL): No, Server Error:
> 0x800CCC90, Error Number: 0x800CCC91
>
> I also setup the sites with Secure Pop. I can get to them via Webmail.

How to learn a valuable lesson in only 10 steps:
1) Ask a long wordy question (see above)
2) Hope someone reads your question and supplies an answer (not as of this
post)
3) Smoke a pack of cigarettes waiting for an answer (there goes 3 bucks)
4) Pick up the user manual that came with the server (right there under the
ashtray)
5) Read the chapter/paragraph about the question your asking (check the
index)
6) See the answer in the manual (wow, in print no less)
7) Apply the answer you just found in the manual (humm, click, click, save)
8) Test the change you just made (did that just work)
9) Re-test the changes because you don't believe it worked (son of a gun, it
does work)
10) Smack yourself in the forehead with the manual for not reading the damn
manual in the first place (ouch, that wire binder hurts)

In other words, I picked up the RaQ4 manual, read the section on email,
removed the Secure Pop check, tested it, and it worked.

Now to apply an ice pack to my forehead.

Bob G.