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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.. Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
