Environment
Novell GroupWise 2014
Novell GroupWise 2012
Novell GroupWise 8
Novell GroupWise 7
Novell GroupWise 6.5
Novell GroupWise 6.5
Situation
An outbound message to a domain that requires SMTP authentication, the use of the file gwauth.cfg is required to define which domains and mail hosts require authentication.
Resolution
Important things to look for:
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The gwauth.cfg file must reside in the domain\wpgate\gwia directory and use the following format:
domain_name authuser authpassword
For example:
smtp.novell.com remotehost novell -
Multiple hosts can be entered in separate lines
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A hard return must be entered at the end of the last line defining a domain/host to connect to
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If GWIA is running on Linux, the filename gwauth.cfg must be in all lowercase characters
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The password specified in the file gwauth.cfg file will likely need to be case sensitive to communicate with the mail server successfully