Hmm...Ok. Get to a bash prompt and, as root, type "setup" and go into the
"system services" and see if Sendmail is started. Also, silly question, but
have you tried the same settings that you're using in Kmail?
Funny you should mention ginster.net....doing a "whois" on ginko.net
(appears to be registered as both ginko.net and ginko.de) shows the dns
server for ginko.net/ginko.de as ginster.net and ginster.de.
Ok....just tried talking to your mail server.... (cute trick I learned
working for an ISP: "telnet <servername> 25" tells you whether or not it's
actually working <G>)
Try this in netscape -- when it asks for the mail server name give it the ip
address 212.202.73.3 See if that works. If so, we've narrowed it down to
some sort of DNS problem. If not, I'm not sure what the next step would
be..... anyone else in the group have any ideas????
John
----- Original Message -----
From: David Krings <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: John Aldrich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, May 31, 1999 3:55 PM
Subject: Re: Viper V550 again
> Hi !
>
>
> >Hmm...not really. It worked "out of the box" for me... 'course I'm
connected
> >directly to my ISP via Ethernet half the time (I work for the ISP <G>) Do
> >you have "sendmail" setup on your system?
>
> Lucky you ! Basically mail works fine if i use kmail from KDE. I dunno
> exactly how sendmail is set up coz i just installed most of my system from
> a RedHat 5.2 distrib taking it as it is.
>
> >What's the mail server name for your ISP? I work in tech support and one
of
> >the most common reasons people can't connect to the mail server (similar
> >problems as you describe) is that they have it wrong to begin with...
either
> >they are trying [EMAIL PROTECTED] or something similar instead of
mail.ISP.com.
>
> The name of my ISP's mail server is mail.ginko.de both for SMTP and POP3.
>
>
> >My boss says that TECHNICALLY you should be able to use "pop3.ISP.com" or
> >"smtp.mailserver.com" but some ISPs (mine included) can't get that to
work,
> >so we're stuck with mail.ISP.com instead.
> >What is your ISP's mail server name? Also, I don't know what the problem
is,
> >but I can't seem to find "ginko.de" when I do an "nslookup" even when
using
> >the name server listed for them by whois.ripe.net
>
> You may look for ginster.de, they have sth to do with each other, but the
> server name of my ISP is definetely mail.ginko.de. I'm using it for W95 as
> well as for kmail.
>
>
> Thanx and greez
>
> Dave
