Re: [newbie] mail problem
On Friday 12 Nov 2004 23:34, Cezary Morga wrote: I've got four mail accounts on polish free mail servers. Unfortunately I keep experiencing some problems when trying to send anything from three of them via SMTP. It takes a lot of time to just connect to them - the rest goes swell. Only one of them - the one I'm using right now - works without a hitch. I'm sorry, I can only think of the relaying problem already mentioned by Anne. Your ISP would have to use some kind of authentication or they'd be an open relay and open to abuse. Could you set your mail clients to use sendmail? (well postfix but it just works like that) That's what I do on my main box with Kmail. HTH Mark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] mail problem
On Friday 12 Nov 2004 23:34, Cezary Morga wrote: I've got four mail accounts on polish free mail servers. Unfortunately I keep experiencing some problems when trying to send anything from three of them via SMTP. It takes a lot of time to just connect to them - the rest goes swell. Only one of them - the one I'm using right now - works without a hitch. I'm not sure I've understood you correctly, with regard to the way that you are sending. One thing does spring to mind, though. With the UK ISPs, if you are connected through one ISP and attempt to use the smtp server of your other ISP account it will not be sent, as relaying is blocked. Could this be related? Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] mail problem
On Sat, 13 Nov 2004 10:16:51 + Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 12 Nov 2004 23:34, Cezary Morga wrote: I've got four mail accounts on polish free mail servers. Unfortunately I keep experiencing some problems when trying to send anything from three of them via SMTP. It takes a lot of time to just connect to them - the rest goes swell. Only one of them - the one I'm using right now - works without a hitch. I'm not sure I've understood you correctly, with regard to the way that you are sending. One thing does spring to mind, though. With the UK ISPs, if you are connected through one ISP and attempt to use the smtp server of your other ISP account it will not be sent, as relaying is blocked. Could this be related? No. My ISP doesn't even give me any e-mail account, so I doubt they would like to block it. And as I have mentioned the problem occurred some time ago - two weeks? I ain't sure. I have problems connecting to mail servers via SMTP (yes I've check if I'm using the right port). POP3 works well. -- Cezary Morga cezarym(at)andrake.org.pl / thereidos(at)@gmail.com Registered Linux User No. 362185 http://counter.li.org GG# 169903 ICQ# 328-700-565 Jabber: thereidos(at)ebox.pl backup email address: cezarym(at)pf.pl Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] mail problem
On Saturday 13 November 2004 06:24, Cezary Morga wrote: No. My ISP doesn't even give me any e-mail account, so I doubt they would like to block it. And as I have mentioned the problem occurred some time ago - two weeks? I ain't sure. I have problems connecting to mail servers via SMTP (yes I've check if I'm using the right port). POP3 works well. The mail servers must be using some sort of authentication mechanism or else they would be blocked to here and back for running open relays and even if you could connect, it would do you little good because everyone would drop your mail server's packets anyway. Perhaps they are using POP before SMTP for authentication and require you to download or check your mail before sending? -- Bryan Phinney Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Mail Problem
kat, what i do with gotmail (fetches hotmail mail) is to specify a directory in my home directory (just create one) and then setup kmail with another receiving account that fetches mail from that directory, bascule On Friday 07 Nov 2003 11:09 am, kat wrote: I did a fresh install of Mandrake 9.2 and have had no problems until now. I installed 'Fetchyahoo' last night, and when it asks for the spool path (usually '/var/spool/mail/username') I put that in. However it said 'path not found,' and sure enough, it's not there. I use Kmail which set up my inbox, etc path in my home directory. Is that where the spool would be? Sorry to sound so idiotic. TIA, Kat -- He expanded his chest to make it totally clear that here was the sort of man you only dared to cross if you had a team of Sherpas with you. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mail Problem
On Friday 07 Nov 2003 11:09 am, kat wrote: I did a fresh install of Mandrake 9.2 and have had no problems until now. I installed 'Fetchyahoo' last night, and when it asks for the spool path (usually '/var/spool/mail/username') I put that in. However it said 'path not found,' and sure enough, it's not there. I use Kmail which set up my inbox, etc path in my home directory. Is that where the spool would be? Sorry to sound so idiotic. TIA, Kat /var/spool/mail/username is where a mail server such as Postfix would put mail for that account by default. I think if you tell Fetchyahoo to put the mails directly in your KMail mail file it will work OK, but the mails will not be highlighted as 'new mail' (Try it and see) You could always tell Fetchyahoo to put the mails in /var/spool/mail/username (create the file first with 'username' as the owner), and then define a new account in Kmail to look at the 'Local Mailbox' KMailSettingsConfigureKmailNetworkReceivingAdd derek -- -- www.jennings.homelinux.net http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mail Problem
On Friday 07 November 2003 06:04 am, Derek Jennings wrote: On Friday 07 Nov 2003 11:09 am, kat wrote: I did a fresh install of Mandrake 9.2 and have had no problems until now. I installed 'Fetchyahoo' last night, and when it asks for the spool path (usually '/var/spool/mail/username') I put that in. However it said 'path not found,' and sure enough, it's not there. I use Kmail which set up my inbox, etc path in my home directory. Is that where the spool would be? Sorry to sound so idiotic. TIA, Kat /var/spool/mail/username is where a mail server such as Postfix would put mail for that account by default. I think if you tell Fetchyahoo to put the mails directly in your KMail mail file it will work OK, but the mails will not be highlighted as 'new mail' (Try it and see) You could always tell Fetchyahoo to put the mails in /var/spool/mail/username (create the file first with 'username' as the owner), and then define a new account in Kmail to look at the 'Local Mailbox' KMailSettingsConfigureKmailNetworkReceivingAdd derek Thanks, Derek, it worked. I set up a new file in the /var/spool/mail directory and configured kmail to retrieve the mail from the local mailbox. Now I can fetch mail from Yahoo without having to log in via the web. Kat Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
