[Spambayes] Re: SMTP Errors using Eudora

[Meyer, Tony]

> 1. There has been an error transferring your mail. I said: MAIL FROM: 
> <emailaddress> and then the SMTP server (localhost) said: 530 
> Authentication required.

This sounds like you haven't checked the "allow authentication" box, or
whatever it is called in v6.  I'm not sure how this would be smtpproxy's
fault.

> 2. There has been an error transferring your mail. I said: QUIT and
then 
> the SMTP server (localhost) said: 502 (mp023) Unimplemented.

>From this and other recent reports about smtpproxy failures, I think
that it's not proxying commands exactly as they were received (which is
what it should do).  I'm not sure how this would be, though, and I don't
get any of these problems.

At some point today, I'll put up a debugging version of smtpproxy.py at
<http://www.massey.ac.nz/~tameyer/smtpproxy.py>, which anyone that is
interested can use to (hopefully) try and track this down.

> I'm seing the same thing with Eudora 5.1. The fact both of us 
> are using Norton AntiVirus 2002, and no one else seems to be
> seeing the problem leads me to believe that either it is Norton
> related or that no one else is using Eudora.

AFAIK, smtpproxy isn't widely used.  I suspect that is the culprit,
perhaps in addition to Eudora doing something different than other MUAs.

> I'm in the process of adding some logging to smtpproxy.py in 
> an attempt to figure this one out. If I can come up with an answer
> (or a good guess) I'll post it to the list.

That would be greatly appreciated.

> BTW, doesn't Eudora 6 include bayesien (SP?) filtering?

I've heard it's not as good, though <wink>.

=Tony Meyer