Mike Below is my notes based on my experience with mail and md8.1, hope they may be helpful. I'm not sure if I've gone about it the right way but it certainly worked for me ever since. It became very frustrating for me trying to resolve.
Nev Getting Mail to Work I had a problem with 8.1 in that mail would not run. I tried all mail programs but I kept getting "server not found messages". Logging on to my ISP was not a problem and the browser worked - just the mail. I tried reconfiguring and linuxconf and had it working but it reverted back to the same problem each time I rebooted. I traced the problem back to /etc/resolve.conf and changed the lines and mail immediately worked but still had the same problem with rebooting. Eventually found that resolve.conf was a link to /etc/ppp/resolve.conf. However resolve.conf was set each time by /etc/ppp/ppoe.conf in that it obtained the DNS values from the ISP Server on connect and overrode what was in /etc/ppp/resolve.conf. I told it not to go looking for the DNS and it then did not overwrite the resolve.conf file. # DNS type: SERVER=obtain from server; SPECIFY=use DNS1 and DNS2; # NOCHANGE=do not adjust. DNSTYPE=NOCHANGE # Obtain DNS server addresses from the peer (recent versions of pppd only) # USEPEERDNS=yes # DNS1= # DNS2= The /etc/ppp/resolve.conf should look like: search localdomain vic.bigpond.net.au nameserver 61.9.128.13 nameserver 61.9.128.16 =================================== mike cola wrote: >hi >hoping someone on the list in australia can help me > >im just trying to replace my web based email address (this one) with my email address >from big pond and use evolution but i have added the line > search vic.bigpond.net.au >to etc/resolve.conf as per the excellent tutorial on getting connected to adsl here> >http://eastwood.apana.org.au/Misc/adsl-bigpond.html > >but when i add the server names using the wizards in evolution, it goes okay too >until i finish and try to send/receive new mail..the i get errors like "�rror unable >to connect to pop-server.bigpond.net.au (port 995): operation now in progress" and >"error while Fetching Mail: unable to connect to POP server error sending username: >unknown domain" > >what am i missing? >TIA > >mikecola > > >"...Who's the big winner tonight...? Mikey! Mikey wins! Mikey's the big >winner...!"- Trent "Double Down" (Vince Vaughn) >---------------------------------------------------------------------- >www.pherell.com TECHNO melbourne style. heard it yet? mike thinks you should > > > >------------------------------------------------------------ >Your Lowrider Community... http://www.lowrider.com >Your Personalized Page Start Page... http://my.lowrider.com > > >------------------------------------------------------------------------ > >Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? >Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com >
Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
