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What are the authentication setting requirements used by email alerts?
I get the "Unable to send a test message. Cannot send a test message. Please check authentication settings". I can set up my server settings to match the authentication setting required by ReadyNAS....
If anyone else has a dummy mail system and need to setup the itty gritty, program it to use AUTH LOGIN as the authentication method.
http://www.samlogic.net/articles/smtp-commands-reference-auth.htm
Tripline wrote:
I assume that the NAS doesn't require username/password authentication and the credentials can be passed through.
Correct. The NAS just passes through what you enter.
I suspect that any email failure will give you the same message - including the case where the NAS can't reach the SMTP server you entered. That's why I asked about the DNS name.
Though it's also possible that you ran into a bug - since no email authentication is now a rare case. What firmware are you running?
The SMTP server setting is using an IP so DNS shouldn't matter. The server I am using isn't the norm so I will mess around with it and mix and match the settings. Maybe Ill end up using TLS.
and what firmware are you running?????
Try downloading the log zip file, and look in msmtpd.log
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