Sympatico SMTP server's SASL authentication failure

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Sun, Mar 09, 2008 at 06:43:19PM -0400, S P Arif Sahari Wibowo wrote:
> Solved. Apparently the Hotmail (which provide Sympatico e-mail 
> service)'s SMTP server misbehaved (a Microsoft server 
> misbehaved? Really?), but I managed set postfix to get around it 
> by tell postfix not to use "login" mechanism in SASL, using this 
> configuration:
> smtp_sasl_mechanism_filter=!login, static:rest
> 
> Well, another reason not to use Sympatico. I would already move 
> away from Sympatico if I am not worry about being put into 
> second tier by Bell when Bell has network issues.

As far as I can tell Sympatico users have it worse when there are
problems since the tech support for sympatico seems to have no clue or
access to actual technical people that know what is going on, while
smaller ISPs have access to their own tech people that have access to
the Bell tech people and hence they might actually tell you what the
real problem is, rather than having you click the start button again and
reboot again for the 5th time.

And you get to pay less money per month at the same time, and deal with
real mail servers, real tech support people, and maybe even get static
IPs and such.

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