SMTP.VERIZON.NET Authentication Errors Sending Mail

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TO: Admin of SMTP.VERIZON.NET

Please remove CRAM-MD5 as a supported authentication type for SMTP.VERIZON.NET.  The server does not actually support this auth type, and some clients fail authentication when they mistakenly try to authenticate with this method.  While many email clients can fail, fallback to other methods listed, and succeed, some clients (such as printers with scan to email functions) are not able to fallback quickly enough. 

If your server doesn't support the AUTH method, it shouldn't be advertised.  The troubleshooting proving this error has been posted on several forums since the change a couple months ago.  Banning CRAM-MD5 seems to work well where the client allows that practice, but again, some clients don't let you choose that specifically.

PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE, fix it or remove it.

220 vms173019pub.verizon.net -- Server ESMTP (Sun Java(tm) System Messaging Server 7u2-7.02 32bit (built Apr 16 2009))

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250-vms173019pub.verizon.net

250-8BITMIME

250-PIPELINING

250-CHUNKING

250-DSN

250-ENHANCEDSTATUSCODES

250-HELP

250-XLOOP REDACTED

250-AUTH DIGEST-MD5 PLAIN LOGIN CRAM-MD5