I was having this happen with PM's, now its doing it when I try to reply,



Error: SMTP Error [535]: Authentication failed

Mail Server communication log:
S:220 mx5.mx.osmtp.net ESMTP Exim 4.71 Sat, 22 Oct 2011 10:11:08 -0700
C:EHLO smtp.olypen.com
S:250 mx5.mx.osmtp.net Hello olyweb1.olypen.com [173.244.96.51] -
S:250 SIZE 52428800 -
S:250 PIPELINING -
S:250 AUTH LOGIN PLAIN -
S:250 STARTTLS -
S:250 HELP
C:AUTH LOGIN
S:334 VXNlcm5hbWU6
C:%s
S:334 UGFzc3dvcmQ6
C:%s
S:535 Incorrect authentication data



I hit the Back button ( too bad they dont have those on some people)
& it tells me to Wait, then, the box changes to POst, so I yry again, no workee,,

Welcome to the club. I get an error message when I try to reply to a PM.

justin_o_guy2 wrote on 10/22/11 at 10:13:46:


S:250 STARTTLS -Tells the server you want to authenticate with it,  
1      AUTH LOGIN (start the authentication process)
The server should have returned 334 VXNlcm5hbWU6; this is an encoded string asking you for your username, paste the username you created earlier.
Now you should have received a message telling you that you successfully authenticated. If it failed your user/pass may have been wrong or your mailserver is broken.

Try clearing your cookies and cached temp files, and restarting your browser (to get a 'fresh' read). If that doesn't work try a different browser. Not all browsers are alike. If you are using IE8 or 9 turn on compatibility viewer. Microsoft is now using their own flavor of HyperText Markup Language, 'MSHTML' and it is not compatible with many pages already in service on the web. Microsoft, true to their past, expects the rest of the world to convert to their flavor of HTML.
Good Luck with that!!!

justin_o_guy2 wrote on 10/22/11 at 13:00:18:


Its the little broken in half sheet of paper at the right side of the address bar.


And that just worked for me.  I had been getting that same error all day.

Ah Haa! You broke it!

Ok, just got that error message for the first time ever when posting to the Cafe, so I think the problem is on the forum end.
When I checked the thread I was posting to, my post was there & I'm glad because with my typing skills it takes me a while to type out my posts.

Okay, heres how to get around it


POst reply, get the Error message, hit the back button, go to bottom l;eft, hit Board, once its up, hit refresh, your reply will be there.

Okay,, I did something like that,, anyway, dont keep trying, youre posting, I just tried a post, it gave the error, Its posted,,
But the system I said to use is messed up,, hit back & then go wherever,

Okay, just hit back until you get back to the thread youre trying to reply to, then hit refresh,, thers yer post,,

If ya watch close, youll see the Error page flash by after ya hit a button ,