Exim Not Authenticating

[cryptodan]

How do I get exim to accept and deliver messages via the webmail applications as well as vi outlook or any other external mail clients?

I keep getting this:

2008-10-19 22:12:59 login authenticator failed for localhost (www.crypticdan.com) [127.0.0.1]: 535 Incorrect authentication data (set_id=crypticdan)
2008-10-19 22:13:03 login authenticator failed for localhost (www.crypticdan.com) [127.0.0.1]: 535 Incorrect authentication data (set_id=crypticdan)
2008-10-19 22:14:17 login authenticator failed for localhost (www.crypticdan.com) [127.0.0.1]: 535 Incorrect authentication data (set_id=crypticdan)

 

[nobaloney]

By default DirectAdmin's webmail clients should just work with your emai clients. You shouldn't need to use authentication when sending email as long as you've attempted to receive email (with the proper password) within the last fifteen minutes. Webmail applicatiions should work properly after you've logged in.

Please send more information. Are you having problems with the main accounts, or with the virtual email accounts you've set up?

Jeff

 

[cryptodan]

By default DirectAdmin's webmail clients should just work with your emai clients. You shouldn't need to use authentication when sending email as long as you've attempted to receive email (with the proper password) within the last fifteen minutes. Webmail applicatiions should work properly after you've logged in.

Please send more information. Are you having problems with the main accounts, or with the virtual email accounts you've set up?

Jeff

I found out the issue, and forgot to edit my posts. The username is the email address as such: [email protected]

 

[nobaloney]

May I presume then, that the problem was you were trying to login as username rather than as [email protected]? That's a common mistake.

Jeff

 

[cryptodan]

May I presume then, that the problem was you were trying to login as username rather than as [email protected]? That's a common mistake.

Jeff

Yes, I was trying to user username instead of [email protected]. I think maybe that should be added to the final message stating that DA has been installed, and this is how it works. No where did I read did it say users should use their full email address when lagging in to webmail.

 

[nobaloney]

I think that when you create a mailbox it shows up on the page that says it's created.

Jeff

 

[cryptodan]

I think that when you create a mailbox it shows up on the page that says it's created.

Jeff

Well, coming from a person who has never had to use their full email address when logging in one can only assume that this is how it is done with just username, had I been instructed to login to my email server as [email protected] then I wouldn't have posted here.

 

[nobaloney]

Most (though certainly not all) Webhosting control panels I've come across use the full email address as the login name; it's generally considered the easiest way to allow multiple multiple users with the same email name.

Blue Quartz, and the Cobalt RaQs it evolves from, didn't allow multiple users with the same email name.

Plesk, another well known system, actually internally uses both the name and the password internally to create a hash to identify the user; you can have to user email names that are the same, but you can't have to of the same user email names that use the same password. Which creates a lot of confusion when it sometimes happens.

Jeff

 

[cryptodan]

When I login to Yahoo and comcast they only prompt for username and password, however, when I go to login to my hotmail account it specifically asks for username in the form of their MSN Live email address. Is there someplace I can modify to tell new users to login using their full email address and password when they visit their webmail page?

 

[nobaloney]

When I login to Yahoo and comcast they only prompt for username and password

Yahoo and Comcast both have only one domain name for receipt of email.

however, when I go to login to my hotmail account it specifically asks for username in the form of their MSN Live email address.

Microsoft/MSN have several different domain names where people can have email accounts.

Is there someplace I can modify to tell new users to login using their full email address and password when they visit their webmail page?

You can make changes to your welcome email.

And you can make changes to the main webmail page of every webmail client offered for use with DirectAdmin; they're all open-source.

Jeff