On Friday 26 January 2001 22:14, Tim&Pep wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Okay, I'm sorry if this is an idiotic question. I just successfully
> completed my installation of KDE, (thanks Ivan!) and now I'm trying
> to configure kmail. I've read the instructions in the help file and
> tried to carry them out but I get an "unknown host" error when I
> try to receive mail. (I'm using a different OS right now which is
> why I can email.). I'm entering the info just as I would here in
> windoze (okay I confess) which I suspect is probably wrong. I.e.
>
> SMTP server: pacific.net.ph
>
> incoming mail server: pacific.net.ph
>
> Clearly this is wrong in the context Linux, but I'm clueless as to
> what's right. I suppose it's related to the fact that under linux
> my machine has it's own hostname. ("pudgy" - don't ask). So does
> that have to get worked in somehow? Or do I have to use sendmail?
> Thanks.
>
> Tim> SMTP server: pacific.net.ph Server: smtp.pacific.net.ph # OR Server: pop2.pacific.net.ph Port: 25 > incoming mail server: pacific.net.ph Host: po.pacific.net.ph Port: 110 Your friends here are dnsutils (provides, among other things, dnsquery and nslookup) debian:/home/penguin# apt-get install dnsutils debian:~$ dnsquery www.pacific.net.ph ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 40892 ;; flags: qr aa rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 2, ADDITIONAL: 2 ;; www.pacific.net.ph, type = ANY, class = IN www.pacific.net.ph. 15M IN CNAME shoot.pacific.net.ph. pacific.net.ph. 15M IN NS ns1.pacific.net.ph. pacific.net.ph. 15M IN NS ns2.pacific.net.ph. ns1.pacific.net.ph. 15M IN A 210.23.234.33 ns2.pacific.net.ph. 15M IN A 210.23.234.65 debian:~$ dnsquery smtp.pacific.net.ph ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 24251 ;; flags: qr aa rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 2, ADDITIONAL: 2 ;; smtp.pacific.net.ph, type = ANY, class = IN smtp.pacific.net.ph. 15M IN CNAME pop2.pacific.net.ph. pacific.net.ph. 15M IN NS ns1.pacific.net.ph. pacific.net.ph. 15M IN NS ns2.pacific.net.ph. ns1.pacific.net.ph. 15M IN A 210.23.234.33 ns2.pacific.net.ph. 15M IN A 210.23.234.65 Hehe, even extracts the name servers from ISPs with clueless tech support (needs a working name server though).
