[NTLUG:Discuss] OT general email server question

[Greg Edwards]

Fred James wrote:

> 
> Preston Hagar
> Thank you for your thoughts and suggestions, however ...
> 
> There was never a question as to the cause of the outage being ISP 'A' 
> as ...
>    (1) everything worked except their email
>    (2) the error message was about authentication
>    (3) a call to the help number got a recorded message that there was 
> an email outage, the engineers were working on it, and they even gave an 
> estimated time of completion.
> 
> My first question remains ... were does the error message originate (the 
> text of the message in particular)?
> Thanks
> Regards
> Fred James


Fred,

The authorization failure reply originates at the mail server.  That's 
where the login is validated.  The server sends a response code and your 
browser generates the actual message.

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Greg E