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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Wayne Petherick
Criminology Department
Bond University
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