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Changes to SMTP Authentication
Over the last two weeks, I have had several customers who suddenly could no longer send e-mail. The first wave came all in one day - October 23. At first I thought it was a Comcast problem because all the complaints, except one, came from Comcast customers. Since then, I have had others who have had issues who were not Comcast customers.
In all cases, instructing the user to use authentication with a username and password fixed the problem. It still bugs me though. I hate not knowing is going on, and I hate not being able to give my customers a definitive answer. I know that the stock answer is that authentication is required, but i think a lot of people who POP before sending mail don't explicitly turn it on. So what changed? Does anyone know? --Bruce |
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That setting should not affect the ability to authenticate - you shouldn't really enable that option unless you're debugging something.
Just as a recap, there are two types of SMTP relay authentication on cPanel servers: 1. SMTP AUTH where the client uses their cPanel account username and password in their email client to authenticate as they relay email through the server 2. POP Before SMTP where a client must POP their email account within 30 minutes of trying to relay email through the SMTP server The POP Before SMTP process is controlled by the antirelayd process that runs when you (re)start exim. So, the first check is to make sure it's running OK: service exim restart If antirelayd doesn't or wasn't running, ensure that both tick boxes for it are enabled in WHM > Service Manager Secondly, the antirelayd process detects the POP logins by tracking the information shown in /var/log/maillog, so you need to ensure that that file is actively being updated with the POP logins. If it isn't, then you're probably suffering from the /tmp noexec bug in logrotate: http://www.configserver.com/techfaq/index.php?faqid=38 If that's the problem, restart syslog: service syslog restart That ought to cover all aspects of SMTP relay authentication for email clients.
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If you want to disable POP before SMTP, unselect the boxes for antirelayd in WHM > Service Manager and then restart exim.
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