On Sun, 01 Jul 2012 19:59:32 +1000, GeraldC wrote: > On Sunday, July 01, 2012 06:25:59 PM Camaleón wrote: >> On Sun, 01 Jul 2012 10:29:24 +1000, Gerald wrote: >> > Hi to all, >> >> Hi, but there's no need to send the same message twice :-) > Sorry, I do not know why that happened. >> >> > Although I run Debian on my server it does not pick up email.
> Debian I use as a server nothing else, data only. Fine, but can you receive from there? There are text based MUA you can use to check this (e.g., Mutt). >> You mean you are not running Debian from the computer you can't fetch >> the e-mails? If so, what's your OS? > I run 64 bit PCLinuxOS 2012.06 Test 5, but since that has now switched > to kmail2 I am using the 32 bit 2012.02 version of PCLinuxOS to pick up > mail. Okay. Consider also posting at the PCLinuxOS mailing lists or forums. > It does appear that kmail2 is giving some problems Yes, I've read about that, but at least it should be able to send and receive, that's basic :-) >> And you don't receive any message, warning or error from Kmail when >> sending/downloading? That's weird... > I have now tried Fedora 17 and that has the same problem. Okay, but what was the e-mail client you configured in fedora? > Although I think I have set up kmail2 correctly as I would in kmail1. > It cannot send or receive emails. We know that :-), but you should get an error or something when you press the send and receive button.... >> How about a different MUA? To discard a problem with the server >> settings. > In Fedora 17 it gave me an option to use sendmail as the transport, but > that did not do anything either. What!? Sir, I'm starting to think you should detail "one by one" the steps you have followed to configure your e-mail client. You can be doing something wrong here. >> > I was wondering if anyone out in the great blue younder can point me >> > in the right direction for solveing his problem. > Does anyone else, have kmail2 running? I guess many :-) >> Not enough data, I'm afraid. I'd run the above tests first. > I just need some pointers. I already told you some but you have to try them and send the results of your tests. Greetings, -- Camaleón -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]

