Relay access denied

[Nehle]

Everytime I try to send an e-mail to any e-mail account outside my own server (dragonball-se.com), I get an error message saying 'Relay access denied'. What is wrong, and hoe do I fix it?

cheers

[Nehle]

Right, I realised I forgot to turn authorisation on. Now I get an improper AUTH response


From: Mail Delivery System <>
To: Self
Subject: Mail Delivery Failure.
Date sent: Sun, 25 Nov 2001 00:09:07

Delivery has failed on the enclosed message for the following
reasons reported either by the mail delivery system on the mail
relay host or by the local TCP/IP transport module:

334 535 Error: authentication failed

Your original mail message follows:
--------------------------------------------------------

X-PM-Identity: <Default>
From: nehle@dragonball-se.com
To: nehle83@hotmail.com
Date: Sun, 25 Nov 2001 00:08:55 +0100
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII
Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT
Subject: test
Reply-to: nehle@dragonball-se.com
Message-ID: <3C003697.21713.1B08621@localhost>
Priority: normal
X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Win32 (v3.12c)

test

[Bud]

hi Nehle,

I believe Powweb uses an authentication scheme for their pop accounts. I'm not sure exactly how their's works, but with others I've used you must first check your mail (which authenticates you) and then you'll be able to send mail for a short time (maybe 30 min). After this time period, you'll need to check the mail again before sending more. Kinda of a pain I know, but it helps quite a bit in keeping spam abuse down.

I don't use Powweb's smtp, I set my ISP's smtp address in my mail client so I never have to authenticate.

Hope this helps!

~bud

[Nehle]

Finally! I found out what was wrong, it seems the SMTP server is case-sensitive when it comes to authenticayion, but the POP3 server isn't. So when I used nnnn.Nehle instead of nnnn.nehle I could only receive mail and not send it.