On Thu, 24 Oct 2002, Todd Slater wrote: > On Thu, 24 Oct 2002 15:22:28 +0100 (BST) > Len Lawrence <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > 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 > > Just go to Configuration > Preferences for Current Account > Basic and > under Server Information select None (local) and for SMTP server (send) > give your domain. Thanks Todd, I was already using None (local). Have tried tarazed.demon.co.uk and 194.222.69.51 in the server field and sylpheed tries to send; "sending from tarazed..." but always comes back with an error. There seems to be some activity on the line so maybe it is a problem at the other end? I have a POP3 account with Demon with the username tarazed but in the SMTP authentication have specified the local user lcl with the local password. Is that correct? The other thing is - should an external program be specified for sending, and if so which? Presumably it should be whichever postfix relies on. Or on second thoughts, does sylpheed queue the mail for postfix to deal with whenever? Really, I am floundering here. Never had to think about these issues with pine but on the other hand, sylpheed does look pretty.
> I'm using Sylpheed-Claws 0.8.2, but I think that config doesn't change > much from version to version. > > HTH, > Todd > > -- Len Lawrence
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