----- Original Message ----- From: "civileme" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "John Richard Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, April 25, 2002 10:23 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] Have I got a Virus ?
> John Richard Smith wrote: > > > All my Kmail emails have become blocked . > > every time I go to send an email I get the usual error message:- > > Command RCPT > > Response 550 relaying to < [EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > Prohibited by administrator. > > message will stay in outbox,blah,blah,blah, > > transport protocol smtp://mail.mnopq.net25 > > and yes I know perfectly well that this usually means you have made > > an error in the email composition, perhaps for instance you might of > > omitted > > to insert an email address, but not this time, if there remains an > > error with > > any of the emails it is well hiden,and in anycase I moved the leading > > emails > > off the outbox so as to remove them one by one to see which one was > > causing > > the delay, eventually I had none left. > > this problem arose after having received an email from a relative > > > > who complained of just the the same problem in their emailer(Outlook > > express), > > and the funny thing is that when I took the parcel of emails I had > > waiting to > > go, off one computer via a floppy, to another the same result happened in > > > > yet another Kmail emailer. > > All this I tried in root as well to see whether I had a permissions > > problem , > > it didn't make any difference. > > Finally, I resorted to my own version of Outlook Express,against my > > wishes. > > John > > John Richard Smith > > > Send me that email ;) > What you are concealing in your description is what I would need to see > to diagnose..., along with your machine configuration. Please find attatched file` Tony ' ,kindly treat as personal and do not publish. LM8.2 and LM8.1 , please also see kmail config files attatched. > > Also, try setting your KMailer to the 'sendmail' setting instead of the > SMTP--right now your mail is being bounced by your ISP nearly as I can > figure. I tried switching to sendmail but it too failed, message "failed to exicute mailer program/usr/sbin/sendmail.(the change was made in settings-configure Kmail) > > My guess is that you do not have an email virus, but if any could be > written for linux, then KMail would be the easiest target. More likely > some switch was hit in your header which your ISP doesn't like, or > possibly your ISP has restricted relaying mail for you for some reason I thought that at first, but I left it until this morning and tried again to see whether late last night they had a systems overhaul, but no, and in anycase the same server is accepting Outlook Express emails OK.Also Kmail accepts emails. > they believe is valid--as you can guess, I don't think much of the error > analysis most ISPs perform with email; if I wanted a high probability of > a wrong answer, I would send a half-trained person to read an email header. > > Civileme Don't hesitate to ask me if I have left something out, regards, John ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com >
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