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The subject basically explains it.

I recently attempted to set up CiviMail for mass mailings, and everything works just fine until it came time to set up the cron. I generated an md5 hash for the key and added it to the URL for cron, and added it to the civicrm.settings.php file. Everything in CiviCRM works just fine, but now NO emails send. When I try to send an email (activity) to an individual, I get an error authentication failure [SMTP: Authentication failed. (code: 221, response: roger.asmallorange.com closing connection)]
Simply replacing the key with NULL again, and everything works.
The key value 'a' doesn't work, nor does 'abcd1234'.

Is there a way to fix this so I can use my md5 key? Is there a way to get the civimail cron job to run without a site key?

The SMTP settings work perfectly without a sitekey. When the site key is set, SMTP cannot authenticate. (Or at least that's the error message that's provided.)

Note that I get this error with a key set even when I send an individual email to a contact, logged in as the admin user.

If I change the key back to NULL, I can send one-off emails (as activities), and I can force CiviMail by navigating to the URL http://<site>/index.php?q=civicrm/mailing/queue&reset=1 when logged in with CiviMail Access.

When we add the name, pass, and key to that URL, (so, http://maculele.org/index.php?q=civicrm/mailing/queue&reset=1?name=name&pass=pass&key=key) in the browser it tries to open the page as an Anonymous user. Does the same when run as a cron job.

I'm actually running 3.1.beta2 on Drupal 6.15. I'll look for you on IRC.