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“SMTP Error: Could not authenticate”

Linux, Sh*ts, ,

I had to install WP-Mail-Bank in one of my WordPress pages/blogs/store, so it can send emails to *people* 🙂

I was getting “SMTP Error: Could not authenticate”  on the test email tab.

I had to went to https://accounts.google.com/b/0/DisplayUnlockCaptcha and continue with this request. This gives us a 10min window to connect to Google in an *unsecure* way. Google detects the connection and allow it for the future.

Reference: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3949824/smtp-error-could-not-authenticate-in-phpmailer

Apr 29 03:09:02 sd-71796 postfix/master[43779]: fatal: bind 0.0.0.0 port 25: Address already in use

Linux, Ubuntu, ,

Apr 29 03:09:02 sd-71796 postfix/master[43779]: fatal: bind 0.0.0.0 port 25: Address already in use

So, looks like we have the port 25 in use!

This solved my issue…
service sendmail stop
service postfix restart
service sendmail start

After doing this the /var/mail/ had the user’s files!

Send a test email

mail -s "Test Subject" [email protected] < /dev/null

To set up an user you need to Configure Additional Email Addresses.

 

Solution found at http://askubuntu.com/questions/405058/postfix-start-error-port-25-address-already-in-use