----- Original Message -----
From: "Shea Martin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, September 28, 2000 4:50 PM
Subject: [SLU] Re: No sending mail...
> I am not sure had the same problem as all of you with sending mail or not. But here
> is how I solved the only two problems I ever had w/ mail/kmail.
>
> 1.) Problem: Mailer could not look up my mail servers even though I had entered
> them exactly as I had with windows. Sol'n: Enter the full mail server name. You
> will most likely have to contact your ISP for this. For example, in windows @home
> told me to enter 'mail' for smtp and pop3 server. The full name I needed for linux
> was 'mail.sshe1.sk.wave.home.com' .
> 2.) Problem: Kmail worked fine. One day I could only recieve, not send. It
>complained
> that I had improper syntax in my To: field (or something like that.) I knew that I
> had the info correct. Sol'n: One of the kmail folders was corrupt. So I deleted
> the ~/mail folder. This corrected everything. Note: this will empty all of your
> mail boxes, nothing else. Filters, settings, and abook will remain. NOte2 - I
> probably should have deleted the mail boxes one at a time to see which one was
> actually corrupt. Most likely it was the out-box, or sent-mail.
>
> Hope this helps someone.
I had a similar problem recently and after reading this it inspired me to check into
it....anyway after a bit i decided to try the
ip address of the server which seems to have worked fine.
Hope that is of help to someone.
Neil
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