On Monday 02 January 2006 11:53, a tiny voice compelled Rumen Yotov to write:
> Hi, > Not very much help, but it seems you're using a postfix server to process > to mail. Only out of desperation The server rejects the connections so they time-out. Why would the server reject connections? What does the authentication? This seems to be the big question. For some reason, I can't get kmail or thunderbird to "shake hands" with my ISP's SMTP server. The user name and password are valid. I can access the webmail interface just fine. > Do you have some filtering/SPAM/AVIR rules in KMail? Other than filters to send mail to appropriate folders, no Is postfix a local > server-seems so. Check your postfix etc. config. Running 'qmail' here no > postfix experience. HTH.Rumen I've got no idea how to set up postfix. If I'm going to use it, I'll need a howto or some pointers. I only installed postfix to try to get kmail working. In order to run kmail or thunderbird, what MTA should I be using? I obviously blew off something when I did a depclean and I'm lost at this point as to what I need to get email sending working again.I have a mepis CD here. I'm thinking I should boot to that and see what I can figure out. does anyone have suggestions as to what I should be looking for? I've looked at qmail, it seems postfix blocks it. I suppose I won't be any worse off without postfix. I'll read up on qmail and see if it will serve my purpose for the short term, but I REALLY want to get kmail working. I'm becomming obsessed, perturbed and frustrated. -- Regards, Ernie 100% Microsoft and Intel free -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
