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I am trying to enter my config settings ( on https://civismtp.uas.coop/drupal/civismtp/account  Its a new account ) and I keep getting the following error.

CiviSMTP Account Settings
Validation error, please try again. If this error persists, please contact the site administrator.

normally a field is flagged so that you know what field is having problems, but nothing is indicated as far as I can tell.

Any clues as to what It may not like or how to find out what field is making it unhappy.

MacRonin,
   Have you entered the smtp authorization pasword in the civicrm.settings.php file? If not, that might be the problem.

Cynthia

  Thank you Cynthia,

That was it. I had thought that this was an either/or situation, and you only had to go to the settings file if you didn't have the parm in the web page( /civicrm/admin/setting/smtp ). But I guess not. Now it has stored and tested all my parms and is mostly happy. It seems to not like my Soap Proxy. I used ther default for Drupal and looks valid, but let me check to make sure I didn't make a typo

Civimail User Check : it appears that the proxy URL that you gave is invalid
SMTP Authorization Check : SMTP Authorization Succeeded! This proves that the SMTP server is up and that the SMTP Authorization is working with the SMTP username and SMTP password you have entered.
Email Domain Check : The MX records for Example.org are correctly configured
SMTP Account settings updated for Example

DRUPAL - http://<your_site_installation_root>/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/soap.php

make sure that Net_SMTP and AUTH_SASL  are installed
make sure that you are following these instructions exactly:  http://civismtp.uas.coop/drupal/node/1

I have previously sent mail from my CiviMail system going against localhost, but will check further. Both of these are PEAR modules I assume. If not installed under PEAR, can I just place them in the folder structure like CiviCRM did for other PEAR modules?
I double checked the SOAP/drupal username & password and SMTP username & password - they do match (your form matches what's entered at my site)

And since I want to double check everything, I just want to verify that having the website domain and the email domain not match is OK. See my post from earlier ( http://forum.civicrm.org/index.php/topic,4988.0.html Using diff domains for website and mail servers  ) The www domain will be the one processing the SOAP requests

Hello again,
   Make sure that the soap username and password that you entered for the UAS account matches the soap username and password for the Drupal (soap) user you created.
   If that doesn't help, it might be something with your settings_location.php file. Take a look here for help: http://forum.civicrm.org/index.php/topic,4049.0.html.

Cynthia

Isn't settings_location.php only for Multi-site installations? I'm not not a multi-site so I haven't created one. Or does the SOAP interface require that one be created anyway? But the post you mention also had links to some other ideas so I will check those also. Thanks again.