From: Victor Duchovni (Victor.Duchovnimorganstanley.com)
Date: Sun Apr 25 2010 - 11:46:55 CDT

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On Sun, Apr 25, 2010 at 09:35:37AM -0700, mohamad rahimi wrote:

> "Unable to authentication to SMTP server mx.mydomain. The server does not
> support any compatible secure authentication mechanism but you have chosen
> secure authentication. Try switching off secure authentication."

"Secure Authentication" means no plaintext passwords, i.e. GSSAPI,
CRAM-MD5, ... Are you sure you have support for mechanisms other than
"PLAIN"? If not, don't tell Thunderbird to try and use them...

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        Viktor.

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