-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 01/22/07 11:59, Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Sun, 21 Jan 2007 08:19:30 +0100 > Robert Epprecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>> On Wed, 17 Jan 2007 20:11:46 +0100 >>> Robert Epprecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> [about problems setting up Kmail to use smtp on google mail accounts] > >> I think this is a big problem with this type of GUI applications: >> If it does *not* work, how do you find out what's wrong? Not even >> starting Kmail from a terminal provided any diagnostic error messages. >> This does not feel like Linux to set it up, but like another well >> known OS ;-) Why can't a GUI program provide the the possibility >> to give (meaningful) error messages to the user who wants to see it? > > There are GUI programs that provide proper error logs. But gmail is > also not the best server to judge on. There are just so many quirks > about it ...
It is trivial to set up Postfix to relay smtp messages to a "primary" smtp server. I do this on my system, and thus I do not list smtp.<myisp>.net in my MUA, but simply "haggis", which is my machine's name. I mention this because Postfix dumps quite a lot of useful information into /var/log/mail.err and /var/log/mail.log using syslog. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFFtQC+S9HxQb37XmcRAhnUAKDSchnKAY5cbp6w53/pDmU1BUawhQCePwmR pyecIICglj1pjA2kuvCX42M= =jOZ+ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]