Another Smartphone woe. Tried using Secure SMTP yet? Don't bother, the mailer in the SmartPhone
does not follow the RFC standard, so good luck getting it to work.
The problem arises because Orange firewall outgoing SMTP.
If I try to email myself from my phone, or anyone else who has an account on my
mail server my mail server expects an authenicated session. As
I am stuck using Orange's outgoing SMTP server (smtp.orange.net) I cannot get to my server to
authenicate. So the obvious answer is to either connect on the ODMR port, or use Secure SMTP which
also uses another ports. The SmartPhone does not support changing the outgoing SMTP port, so I can't
connect via ODMR, but it does support Secure SMTP.
Great, so lets set it up and see what happens. A big error message. This is why;
<-- EHLO Inbox
<-- STARTTLS
--> 220 Begin TLS negotiation
SSL negotiation successful (SSL
3.0, 1024 bit key exchange, 128 bit RC4 encryption)
<-- AUTH LOGIN
--> 503 Unexpected command or
sequence of commands.
<-- QUIT
--> 221 See ya in cyberspace
rfc 3207, the Secure SMTP RFC states
in section 4.2
"The client SHOULD send an EHLO command as the first command
after a successful TLS negotiation."
So the E200 has a broken SSL SMTP service which, whilst it may work with Exchange
(I imagine it does), violates the Secure SMTP RFC. So much for sending email reminders to myself.