The infamous -17897 error and WiFi Hotspots

[BikingBill]

You may have read of this error:

Error -17897: "Authentication failed because Entourage doesn't support
any of the available authentication methods."

And we know from Microsoft:

"This problem occurs when the Post Office Protocol version 3 (POP3)
server or the Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) server uses NTLM
version 1 authentication. Entourage 2004 for Mac no longer supports
NTLM version 1 authentication"

The rub is that it isn't my SMTP account that is the issue, it's the
T-Mobile hotspot system (and others) that is mapping to this
authentication protocol. My SMPT server is NOT using NTLM version 1
authentication ... but many MANY WiFi spots map ANY SMTP access to this
authentication protocol.

Solutions?

Bill

 

[Corentin Cras-Méneur]

Hi,

Solutions?

Try enabling Postfix on the Mac and use 127.0.0.1 as the SMTP server.
That might do the trick,
http://www.entourage.mvps.org/exchange/postfix.html


Corentin