Nothing but problems these days. Hearing that pine is deprecated for Mandrake 9+ I thought I should try to get used to a graphical client and Sylpheed seemed the best bet. It seems awkward after over 10 years of the simplicity of pine, but it is time to join the 21st century community I guess. Postfix is running fine and picks up incoming mail no bother once kppp has connected (and boy is that slow! over a minute compared with the 4 or 5 seconds using a homegrown chat script on my old machine). Sylpheed incorporates the messages OK. The trouble comes when posting to the outside world. "An error occurred" is reported; no indication what. However, it might be related to the configuration for SMTP servwer (send). What should that be? The manual is too terse to be useful. "postfix" did not work. My .pinerc file lists "smtp-server=localhost", so I tried that. Still no joy. There are a lot of Sylpheed users out there - how did you do it?
Waiting hopefully -- Len Lawrence
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