Can't recieve messages. get error 5.7.0 authentication required???email right, now what???
An update came thru and since then I've not been able to send messages. Get error message... "An error occurred while sending mail. The mail server responded: 5.7.0 Authentication required. Please verify that your email address is correct in your account settings and try again." My e-mail address is correct...now what?
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In order for us to better investigate this issue you need to add a little more non-personal information.
Please add the troubleshooting information to your post To find the Troubleshooting information:
- Open Help (or click on three-line-icon and select Help)
- Choose Troubleshooting Information
- Use the button Copy to clipboard to select all. Do not check box "Include account names"!
- Paste this in your post.
Application Basics
Name: Thunderbird Version: 38.3.0 User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.3.0 Profile Folder: Show Folder
(Local drive) Application Build ID: 20150928051427 Enabled Plugins: about:plugins Build Configuration: about:buildconfig Memory Use: about:memory
Mail and News Accounts account1: INCOMING: account1, , (none) Local Folders, plain, passwordCleartext
account2: INCOMING: account2, , (imap) imap.xxx.edu:143, alwaysSTARTTLS, passwordCleartext OUTGOING: smtp.xxx.edu:587, plain, passwordCleartext, true
Crash Reports
Extensions Lightning, 4.0.3.1, false, {e2fda1a4-762b-4020-b5ad-a41df1933103}
Important Modified Preferences
Name: Value
accessibility.typeaheadfind.flashBar: 0 browser.cache.disk.capacity: 358400 browser.cache.disk.smart_size_cached_value: 358400 browser.cache.disk.smart_size.first_run: false browser.cache.disk.smart_size.use_old_max: false extensions.lastAppVersion: 38.3.0 font.name.monospace.el: Consolas font.name.monospace.tr: Consolas font.name.monospace.x-baltic: Consolas font.name.monospace.x-central-euro: Consolas font.name.monospace.x-cyrillic: Consolas font.name.monospace.x-unicode: Consolas font.name.monospace.x-western: Consolas font.name.sans-serif.el: Calibri font.name.sans-serif.tr: Calibri font.name.sans-serif.x-baltic: Calibri font.name.sans-serif.x-central-euro: Calibri font.name.sans-serif.x-cyrillic: Calibri font.name.sans-serif.x-unicode: Calibri font.name.sans-serif.x-western: Calibri font.name.serif.el: Cambria font.name.serif.tr: Cambria font.name.serif.x-baltic: Cambria font.name.serif.x-central-euro: Cambria font.name.serif.x-cyrillic: Cambria font.name.serif.x-unicode: Cambria font.name.serif.x-western: Cambria font.size.fixed.el: 14 font.size.fixed.tr: 14 font.size.fixed.x-baltic: 14 font.size.fixed.x-central-euro: 14 font.size.fixed.x-cyrillic: 14 font.size.fixed.x-unicode: 14 font.size.fixed.x-western: 14 font.size.variable.el: 17 font.size.variable.tr: 17 font.size.variable.x-baltic: 17 font.size.variable.x-central-euro: 17 font.size.variable.x-cyrillic: 17 font.size.variable.x-unicode: 17 font.size.variable.x-western: 17 mail.openMessageBehavior.version: 1 mail.winsearch.enable: true mail.winsearch.firstRunDone: true mail.winsearch.global_reindex_time: 1443199229 mailnews.database.global.datastore.id: fda9c72c-f341-47bb-9369-f64d4ddc2b9 network.cookie.prefsMigrated: true network.predictor.cleaned-up: true places.database.lastMaintenance: 1444059321 places.history.expiration.transient_current_max_pages: 104451 plugin.importedState: true
Graphics
Adapter Description: Intel(R) HD Graphics 5500 Vendor ID: 0x8086 Device ID: 0x1616 Adapter RAM: Unknown Adapter Drivers: igdumdim64 igd10iumd64 igd10iumd64 igdumdim32 igd10iumd32 igd10iumd32 Driver Version: 10.18.14.4170 Driver Date: 3-16-2015 Direct2D Enabled: false DirectWrite Enabled: false (6.2.9200.17461) ClearType Parameters: ClearType parameters not found WebGL Renderer: false GPU Accelerated Windows: 0
AzureCanvasBackend: skia AzureSkiaAccelerated: 0 AzureFallbackCanvasBackend: cairo AzureContentBackend: cairo
JavaScript
Incremental GC: 1
Accessibility
Activated: 0 Prevent Accessibility: 0
Library Versions
Expected minimum version Version in use
NSPR 4.10.8 4.10.8
NSS 3.19.2 Basic ECC 3.19.2 Basic ECC
NSS Util 3.19.2 3.19.2
NSS SSL 3.19.2 Basic ECC 3.19.2 Basic ECC
NSS S/MIME 3.19.2 Basic ECC 3.19.2 Basic ECC
Well that was pointless. I asked you for troubleshooting information so I could check your settings. You chose to remove the server names so there is nothing to check.