On Thu, 24 Oct 2002, Miark wrote:

> I applaud your choice of Sylpheed. As to your problem, why not just
> set the SMTP server to your ISP's SMTP server instead of going through
> Postfix? I never saw the point of adding a middle-man for mail.
Thanks for the suggestion but that is a bit advanced for me.  Might try it 
in the future when I get a better idea of what is going on.  I would not 
know how to specify the Demon SMTP server.  Although I have used WANs and 
the Internet for over 25 years I am still clueless about networking of any 
kind.

> > Nothing but problems these days.  Hearing that pine is deprecated for 
> --------------- snip ------------------
> > 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?
-- 
Len Lawrence




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