Re: [expert] Kmail-SMTP

[Wayne Petherick]

Aaron,
thanks for the tip.  I have printed that e-mail and have kept it on file for next time.  I have to say though, apart from a few problems with the set up, I am now using Pine and can strongly recommend it for anyone looking for a solid email app.

Wayne


At 08:05 PM 5/10/00 -0500, you wrote:
>Wayne, try telnetting to port 25 your IP address....
>
>It would be like this
>
>telnet 205.287.45.3 25
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>If you get no response, your sendmail SMTP server is not responding.....
>
>
>(Assuming you are firing it up at start-up)
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>Also try /etc/rc.d/init.d/sendmail restart (or status)
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>See what happens and check your logs......
>
>Good Luck -Aaron
>
>
>Wayne Petherick wrote:
>>
>> Tom,
>> I had the same problem as you.  Unfortunately I couldn't fix mine either,
>> except by doing exactly what you did and setting it to sendmail.  My IT
>> department couldn't help me because they don't support linux.  WHat did I
>> do?  Switeched to Pine, and haven't looked back.   Took a while to set up,
>> but what an e-mail prog!  You should check it out.
>>
>> Wayne
>>
>>  On Wed, 10 May 2000, Tom Brinkman wrote:
>>
>> >
>> >    Last Saturday I when I tried to send email using Kmail with
>> > File|Settings|Network set to SMTP, localhost, port 25, I got an
>> > error message "Cannot open SMTP connection to host localhost for
>> > sending".  For quite some time (years) I've been using Kmail/SMTP.
>> >
>> >    I changed Kmail's option from 'SMTP' to 'Sendmail' and was
>> > immediately able to send mail.  I have no idea what caused SMTP
>> > to suddenly stop working, or even where to look to fix it.  I
>> > have read the 'mail' howto, and searched the Mdk mailing list
>> > archives to no avail.
>> >
>> >    Can somebody point me in the right direction for getting SMTP
>> > working again.  I have a problem with using the 'sendmail' option
>> > in Kmail because it instantly puts mail in the 'sent mail' box,
>> > even if I don't have a connection to my ISP.  IOW's there's no
>> > indication that the mail is being sent, or queued for later as
>> > there is with Kmail's SMTP option.  Besides, it's bothering me
>> > what I might've done to break SMTP.
>> >
>> >    FWIW, I use Staroffice for reading news groups. It's set to
>> > SMTP for mail, and it hasn't had any problems.
>> >
>> >    TIA,
>> >
>>
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