Wayne, try telnetting to port 25 your IP address....
It would be like this
telnet 205.287.45.3 25
If you get no response, your sendmail SMTP server is not responding.....
(Assuming you are firing it up at start-up)
Also try /etc/rc.d/init.d/sendmail restart (or status)
See what happens and check your logs......
Good Luck -Aaron
Wayne Petherick wrote:
>
> Tom,
> I had the same problem as you. Unfortunately I couldn't fix mine either,
> except by doing exactly what you did and setting it to sendmail. My IT
> department couldn't help me because they don't support linux. WHat did I
> do? Switeched to Pine, and haven't looked back. Took a while to set up,
> but what an e-mail prog! You should check it out.
>
> Wayne
>
> On Wed, 10 May 2000, Tom Brinkman wrote:
>
> >
> > Last Saturday I when I tried to send email using Kmail with
> > File|Settings|Network set to SMTP, localhost, port 25, I got an
> > error message "Cannot open SMTP connection to host localhost for
> > sending". For quite some time (years) I've been using Kmail/SMTP.
> >
> > I changed Kmail's option from 'SMTP' to 'Sendmail' and was
> > immediately able to send mail. I have no idea what caused SMTP
> > to suddenly stop working, or even where to look to fix it. I
> > have read the 'mail' howto, and searched the Mdk mailing list
> > archives to no avail.
> >
> > Can somebody point me in the right direction for getting SMTP
> > working again. I have a problem with using the 'sendmail' option
> > in Kmail because it instantly puts mail in the 'sent mail' box,
> > even if I don't have a connection to my ISP. IOW's there's no
> > indication that the mail is being sent, or queued for later as
> > there is with Kmail's SMTP option. Besides, it's bothering me
> > what I might've done to break SMTP.
> >
> > FWIW, I use Staroffice for reading news groups. It's set to
> > SMTP for mail, and it hasn't had any problems.
> >
> > TIA,
> >
>
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