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Error sendemail
good morning.
So, I'm receiving an authentication error when we're trying to use sendeail...
Could some one please,help me ?!
command="sendemail", SMTP AUTH extension not supported by server. while sending mail to:someone@domain.com
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Its quite an old post but i faced the same error a while ago-
It seems that if you use auth params within the email settings you should specify the server=yourmailserver:port parameter within your sendemail search command. The sendemail command uses the localhost on default.
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please, tell me how can i do that ?!
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Is regular mail working i.e when you use mail from the command line?
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so, I did it that - clear them out - and got the same error.
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by the way, i have already checked the boxes TSL and SSL but the error persists...
i have tried to change the sendemail.py, adding a call to "smtp.login(username, password)" bellow of "smtp = smtplib.SMTP(serverURL)" ... and also failed.
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Are you sure that the server accepts credentials? What happens if you clear them out (because the server appears to be telling you that it won't take them)?
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yes! i have both filled...
thanks for answered me.
Amaral
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Did you enter a username and password on the email setup page, or leave those empty?
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