On Thu, 24 Oct 2002 15:22:28 +0100 (BST) Len Lawrence <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Nothing but problems these days. Hearing that pine is deprecated for > Mandrake 9+ I thought I should try to get used to a graphical client > and Sylpheed seemed the best bet. It seems awkward after over 10 years > of the simplicity of pine, but it is time to join the 21st century > community I guess. Postfix is running fine and picks up incoming mail > no bother once kppp has connected (and boy is that slow! over a minute > compared with the 4 or 5 seconds using a homegrown chat script on my > old machine). Sylpheed incorporates the messages OK. The trouble comes > when posting to the outside world. "An error occurred" is reported; > no indication what. However, it might be related to the configuration > for SMTP servwer (send). What should that be? The manual is too terse > to be useful. "postfix" did not work. My .pinerc file lists > "smtp-server=localhost", so I tried that. Still no joy. There are a > lot of Sylpheed users out there - how did you do it? > > Waiting hopefully Just go to Configuration > Preferences for Current Account > Basic and under Server Information select None (local) and for SMTP server (send) give your domain. I'm using Sylpheed-Claws 0.8.2, but I think that config doesn't change much from version to version. HTH, Todd
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