Hi again, sorry I didn't get back to you yesterday - I took my hard drive out last night and replaced it with a new one (plus a fresh install) and I only got it back up this morning.
I think the traceroute and ethereal are the two leads to follow here: 1. why are you dialling into exceedtech but getting an ip address on the QWest network (according to Richard Fish - well spotted!) and 2. what is your mozilla setting: "Mail & Newsgroups Account Settings" > "Outgoing Server (SMTP)" > "Use name and password" (is it ticked or not?) and what is the "Server Name"? Also, wrt to mozilla itself not starting - a) did you start it from the terminal or from a menu launcher? b) If from the terminal, did you get any output? c) Do you get the prompt back? d) What happens when you do `ps aux | grep mozilla` while mozilla is in it's "won't start" phase?. HTH, -- Iain. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
