Kmail on mandrake receives but won't send (Alan didn't bring his computer in so we have no idea what his computer is actually)
Our diagnosis was that the most likely reason for this is that the local MTA is not running. look for .xsession-errors to see if Kmail is writing errors to a file test whether your network lets you talk to other mail servers by opening a shell and typing telnet smtp.comcast.net 25 you should get a prompt from comcasts' mailserver. if this doesn't occur you have other problems; but this seems unlikely. then try sending mail from the command line. say: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] and type a few lines check to see if it goes through. if it does then it's not your sendmail it's something else. if it doesn't go through then go through your configuration (DrakeConf) and see what it says about sendmail. You will probably need to set it up so that it uses smtp.comcast.net as a smarthost, and set it up so that sendmail is started at boot and isn't listening for outside connections. You will probably want to join the [EMAIL PROTECTED] list to get more advice. -- http://Zoneverte.org -- information explained Do you know what your IT infrastructure does? _______________________________________________ EUGLUG mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug
