>>I've deleted the first and only message in the outbox and I'm still >> unable to send an email with a file attachment with Kmail, and Mozilla
>> Messenger. I've even tried Sylpheed and it also aborts with errors in >> sending. I'm sending to another one of my email addresses that I know >> are functional. >> >what happens when you use a fully qualified host.domain.com address >minus the :<portnumber>? >i.e. hostname.domain.com >on my machine for all the email clients that i us on my machine I have >my mailserver defined as this: >mailserver: mdw1982.dyndns.org >thats it. no port number or anything. that or the machines IP number >with work too. >Mark I've done a ping of my mail server and came up with this: [hosey@localhost hosey]$ ping shawmail PING shawmail.cg.shawcable.net (24.71.223.43) from 192.168.1.103 : 56(84) bytes of data. 64 bytes from shawmail.cg.shawcable.net (24.71.223.43): icmp_seq=0 ttl=125 time=62.097 msec Is shawmail.cg.shawcable.net my fully qualified host.domain.com address? If it is I just tried using that and I still got an error trying to send an email with an attachment. I've also tried using the ip address 24.71.223.43 and no dice with that either. Steve M. -- ___________________________ Linux Mandrake 8.1 (Vitamin) Kernel 2.4.8-26mdk i686
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