On Tuesday 06 September 2005 15:55, Matthew Lee wrote: > I've tried every combination of kmail settings > available, no joy. I've reemerged all the software > that --depclean removed, no joy. I've reemerged > kmail, no joy. I've reemerged ssmtp, no joy. > However, I think ssmtp, or something associated with > it is the problem. But what I haven't a clue. Is > there another "simple" mail transfer agent I could > try. I don't need anything fancy it's just a laptop > connected to the lab DHCP server.
You have no need of a local MTA, at all. Authentication errors from the remote host have nothing to do with any local MTA, you're speaking directly to the remote MTA. If you're getting errors from the local MTA, you're doing something very wrong. You need to attempt this manually using telnet, and/or try another client like thunderbird (as Matthias has suggested). Look out for the banner from the server when you connect with telnet, make sure it is actually the server you expected to connect to. -- Mike Williams -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
