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fabioandr...@gmail.com

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Aug 2, 2008, 3:29:50 PM8/2/08
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Hi,

When I try to send an email via Alpine, the following error message
apears:
"Mail not Sent. Sending error: 421 SMTP Connection Broken (message
data).

The email account is provided by gmail, Imap is working correctly (I
can see, read, and delete my messages).

my SMTP configuration in the pinerc file is the following:

# List of SMTP servers for sending mail. If blank: Unix Alpine uses
sendmail.
smtp-server=smtp.gmail.com:587/tls

Anyone knows a way to solve this problem? I've googled a lot, and
found nothing relevant.

Thanks for your help.

Niklaus Kuehnis

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Aug 2, 2008, 4:32:27 PM8/2/08
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fabioandr...@gmail.com wrote:
> Hi,

> When I try to send an email via Alpine, the following error message
> apears:
> "Mail not Sent. Sending error: 421 SMTP Connection Broken (message
> data).

> The email account is provided by gmail, Imap is working correctly (I
> can see, read, and delete my messages).

> my SMTP configuration in the pinerc file is the following:

> # List of SMTP servers for sending mail. If blank: Unix Alpine uses
> sendmail.
> smtp-server=smtp.gmail.com:587/tls

I think you need to provide a username: ... /user=username/ ...

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Niklaus

Nicolas KOWALSKI

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Aug 3, 2008, 5:22:43 AM8/3/08
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fabioandr...@gmail.com wrote:
> Hi,

Hello,



> When I try to send an email via Alpine, the following error message
> apears: "Mail not Sent. Sending error: 421 SMTP Connection Broken
> (message data).
>

> smtp-server=smtp.gmail.com:587/tls

I use the following:

smtp-server=smtp.gmail.com/ssl/user=myusername

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Nicolas

fabioandr...@gmail.com

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Aug 3, 2008, 8:52:16 AM8/3/08
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Thanks for your help, but after changing the smtp server address to
smtp-server=smtp.gmail.com/ssl/user=fabioandre.domingos , the problem
persists.

Niklaus Kuehnis

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Aug 3, 2008, 9:00:12 AM8/3/08
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Have you tried with the full e-mail address as the username?

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Niklaus

fabioandr...@gmail.com

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Aug 3, 2008, 2:57:46 PM8/3/08
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On Aug 3, 2:00 pm, Niklaus Kuehnis <kuehnik_0...@gmx-topmail.de>
wrote:

Thanks for your help, but after changing it to my full email address,
it keeps showing the error message.

Eduardo Chappa

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Aug 3, 2008, 5:23:43 PM8/3/08
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On Sun, 3 Aug 2008, fabioandr...@gmail.com wrote:

:) > > Thanks for your help, but after changing the smtp server address to
:) > > smtp-server=smtp.gmail.com/ssl/user=fabioandre.domingos , the
:) > > problem persists.
:) >
:) > Have you tried with the full e-mail address as the username?

Try
smtp-server=smtp.gmail.com/user=fabiondre...@gmail.com/tls/submit

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Eduardo
http://staff.washington.edu/chappa/alpine/

fabioandr...@gmail.com

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Aug 4, 2008, 8:15:01 AM8/4/08
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On Aug 3, 10:23 pm, Eduardo Chappa <cha...@u.washington.edu> wrote:

> On Sun, 3 Aug 2008, fabioandre.domin...@gmail.com wrote:
>
> :) > > Thanks for your help, but after changing the smtp server address to
> :) > > smtp-server=smtp.gmail.com/ssl/user=fabioandre.domingos , the
> :) > > problem persists.
> :) >
> :) > Have you tried with the full e-mail address as the username?
>
> Try
> smtp-server=smtp.gmail.com/user=fabiondre.domin...@gmail.com/tls/submit
>
> --
> Eduardohttp://staff.washington.edu/chappa/alpine/

Thanks Eduardo, but it keeps showing the error message.
After trying in another computer of my network with the same config,
it worked, so it's my computer's fault.
I think that it's because of the Operating System (my computer has
Windows Vista, and the other that I've tried has Windows XP).
Anyways, I will reinstall Alpine to see if it solves the problem.

Thanks a lot for your help everybody.
Fábio Domingos.

fabioandr...@gmail.com

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Sep 22, 2008, 7:52:02 PM9/22/08
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Hi Again,

After trying in 2 computers with Windows Vista, it shows the error
message that I've said before("Mail not Sent. Sending error: 421 SMTP
Connection Broken
> (message data).), so I think that there is a compatibility issue with the Windows Vista operating System, I've tried in other Operating Systems and it works correctly.

Thanks again for your help

Fábio Domingos

Mark Crispin

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Sep 22, 2008, 11:51:08 PM9/22/08
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I can assure you that Alpine's SMTP code works fine with Windows Vista. I
wrote that code, and have used it on Vista for nearly two years.

I suspect that your problem is due to some anti-virus program which is
intercepting your outgoing SMTP traffic. Try disabling that function in
your anti-virus program.

On Mon, 22 Sep 2008, fabioandr...@gmail.com posted:

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