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In
most email applications, it is possible to directly specify
a separate username/password pair for authentication for the outgoing
SMTP mail. If your ISP requires such authentication, you can configure
it quite easily.
However, some email applications, most notably Eudora, do not have
an easy way to allow a different username/password pair for
outgoing mail authentication. The reason this is a problem when
you are using ChoiceMail is because your ChoiceMail username is
normally not a simple sequence of characters but rather a combination
of a username followed by an email address. For example, suppose
that before you install ChoiceMail, you have the following settings
for configuring your email client.
- Email address:
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- Username: foo
- Password: xyz
- POP3 (incoming mail) server: pop.someisp.com
- SMTP (outgoing mail) server: smtp.someisp.com
Typically you will configure ChoiceMail so that your ChoiceMail
username begins with the same username as you had for your email
client account. So, after
your email application has been configured to communicate with
ChoiceMail, the settings in your email client will be as follows:
- Email address:
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- Username: foo/
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- Password: xyz
- POP3 (incoming mail) server: localhost
- SMTP (outgoing mail) server: localhost
Note that the username is now a combination of your original username
followed by a slash and then your email address. If you had more
than one email address, the usernames in your email client would
all be of the form
foo/xxx
foo/yyy
foo/zzz
where 'foo' is the ChoiceMail username and xxx,yyy, and zzz represent
your different email addresses.
However, if your real ISP's mail server requires authentication
for outgoing messages, it will expect to see the username and password
foo and xyz respectively.
This will work fine if you can get your email client to use a
separate username and password for outgoing authentication. However,
Eudora personalities have a checkbox called "Use SMTP authentication"
but they assume that the username and password will be the same
as your POP3 username and password. This of course is not the
case once you're using ChoiceMail because your POP3 username has
been extended as described above.
Fundamentally the problem occurs because Eudora does not have settings
in personalities to allow the POP3 username/passwords and the SMTP
username/passwords to be different. And because the POP3 username
is configured to connect to ChoiceMail using the "cmusername/email
address" notation, that username does not work for outgoing
authentication.
Eudora 6.x provides a workaround solution for this problem. What
you have to do is to configure
a new personality to be a relay personality and you set up that
relay personality so that it uses authentication. You then set
your MAIN personality so that it uses the relay personality for
OUTGOING messages.
So essentially what you do is to create a new personality
with the POP3 username/password configured for your real ISP
(not ChoiceMail) and enable authentication for outgoing messages
in that new personality. You must then DISABLE "check for
mail" for
that personality because you're only using it for outgoing messages
and you don't want it to actually pull in any email.
Then, when your main personality wants to send mail, it will
connect through the relay personality which will then use the
POP3 settings for outgoing authentication. It's a real HACK
on the part of the Eudora design but it works.
More information on this is available in the Eudora documentation.
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