Re: More Net difficulties

1999-07-17 Thread Ray
On Fri, Jul 16, 1999 at 10:37:27AM -0400, Sera Hill wrote: > I'm trying to use any kind of txt-based one, preferrably the easiest. John > Foster reccomended that I use exim (previously), Exim is a fine program but it's not a mail reader. > I can't understand 1/2 the > stuff the config file ask

Re: More Net difficulties

1999-07-16 Thread Sera Hill
>I'd stick with official debian stuff until you get things working. Adding >complexity at this point probably isn't a good idea and sendmail can be a >real bear. In any case, sendmail isn't really involved in your receiving of >mail in most cases. > >What mail software are you currently trying to

Re: More Net difficulties

1999-07-16 Thread Ray
On Fri, Jul 16, 1999 at 01:02:02AM -0400, Sera Hill wrote: > I can ftp and run apt fine. I can also ping people. But I > can't get e-mail (just realized to go to freshmeat.org & get > install-sendmail (thanks Marshal)) to work that one. I'd stick with official debian stuff until you get things

Re: More Net difficulties

1999-07-16 Thread John Foster
Sera Hill wrote: > > Well, I'm not on a ppp-based connection. I'm on DHCP. And I'm on a PCMCIA > Ethernet card. I can ftp and run apt fine. I can also ping people. But I > can't get e-mail (just realized to go to freshmeat.org & get > install-sendmail (thanks Marshal)) to work that one. Nets

Re: More Net difficulties

1999-07-16 Thread Sera Hill
Well, I'm not on a ppp-based connection. I'm on DHCP. And I'm on a PCMCIA Ethernet card. I can ftp and run apt fine. I can also ping people. But I can't get e-mail (just realized to go to freshmeat.org & get install-sendmail (thanks Marshal)) to work that one. Netscape is being annoying. I'm

Re: More Net difficulties

1999-07-16 Thread Ray
On Wed, Jul 14, 1999 at 12:14:24PM -0400, Sera Hill wrote: > Whenever I try and access the net on Xwindows or a text-based program, I > can't connect to the network. But when I'm on dselect, I can download > packages without problems. Can anyone help me out? How are you trying to connect? How f

Re: More Net difficulties

1999-07-14 Thread John Foster
Sera Hill wrote: > > Whenever I try and access the net on Xwindows or a text-based program, I > can't connect to the network. But when I'm on dselect, I can download > packages without problems. Can anyone help me out? -- Can you ping a known server from XTERM

More Net difficulties

1999-07-14 Thread Sera Hill
Whenever I try and access the net on Xwindows or a text-based program, I can't connect to the network. But when I'm on dselect, I can download packages without problems. Can anyone help me out? -Sera [EMAIL PROTECTED]