it's solved.
my idiocy, i guess. what happened was, the 'sender's email' field in kmail
had the default value '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'. as soon as i
changed that setting to my yahoo address, i could send. i was too sure the
problem was in the smtp setting, and didn't think of checking the 'user's
identity' part of the kmai configuration. and neither would i have thought of
it if another person hadn't suggested this.
sorry to have bothered you folks for nothing.
mr. kanjilal, let me add in answer to your corollary question that i don't
have sendmail configged on my machine because it's a standalone desktop pc,
and i have always had the idea that such machines can have no use for
sendmail. in fact, one of the first things i always do when i install a new
standalone system is uninstall sendmail and remove it from the startup
scripts.
am i right, or is there a possible way in which i can put it to use? it's
commonly known that sendmail is extremely difficult to configure and maintain.
is this correct?
- t.
On Saturday 14 July 2001 12:04 am, you wrote:
> Interesting situation. Do you have sendmail setup to
> accept mail on your local system? If you do, try
> sending mail to yourself using kmail and see what your
> logs tell you.
>
> Arup
>
> --- Tathagata Banerjee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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> > since my machine isn't on any network (except the
> > internet), it has the default name
> > localhost.localdomain.
> > i am accessing through onlysmart, not vsnl.
> > but if my doman name is the culprit, how can i send
> > mail through mozilla mail or staroffice mail?
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