Re: Email embarrasment
Hi,
she is not sending mail as root, isn't she? I have heard that the mail
goes directly to /dev/null with some installations (well, had it with
RedHat, I was already discouraged sending mail as root when I went
Debian).
Greetz,
Sebastiaan
On Thu, 12 Apr 2001, Johann Spies wrote:
> Sorry for the long message, but I do not know how to explain my
> problem much shorter.
>
> My daughter has a laptop and when she complained about the instability
> of Windows 95 I suggested that she try out Linux. She agreed and I
> installed Stormix Hail on her laptop - what a pleasure to install
> Linux using Stormix - and now she uses Linux most of the time on her
> dual boot laptop. It is an dialup system using exim as mta.
>
> For about a week there was now serious trouble and she was enjoying
> it. Then the trouble started: She complained that kde's mail client
> did not send her messages and lost the messages (previously it worked
> without a problem). I did not know kde's mail client and thought the
> problem might be that it is unstable like balsa. As my daughter wants
> to use a gui mail client, I decided to install XFMail for her. The
> same happened with xfmail. I first configured it on my own computer
> and when I had it working, I duplicated the configuration on hers -
> and then there were problems again: After composing mail, click on the
> send button and nothing happens - not an error message an no message
> in the mail queue. I then in desperation first tried to configure
> netscape's mail on my own computer to work with my own dialup-system
> en got it to work. Tried it out on hers, and it works en every way
> but for sending mail. Netscape reacts on the send command as if it is
> sending the message, but nothing shows up in the mail queue. When I
> try out mutt on her system, there is no problem, but Mutt is a bit
> difficult to learn for an ex-Windows user with not much time at hands.
>
> The situation is a bit of an embarrasment to me who who constantly
> advocates that the time is ready for Linux to be the operating system
> of average computer users and that it is more stable than Windows.
>
> I do not know where to look for the problem.
>
> Some configurations (on both my computer [a desktop] and hers):
>
> Potato / Hail on both systems. Everything works on mine as it should
> (I did not try out kmail on mine as I do not have kde on mine).
>
> MTA exim.
>
> Xfmail|Misc|Conf Misc|Send: Send Method: Sendmail
> SMTP Host: 127.0.0.1 Port 25
> Sendmail path: /usr/bin/sendmail
> Options -i
> DSN Options: -R hdrs -N
> failure.delay.success
> Send Properties: SMTP log
>
> Netscape: Incoming Mail Servers: (Using Movemail)
> Outgoing SMTP-server: localhost
> Outgoing Mail server user name: <not specified>
>
> Sending mail using "mail" or mutt work without a problem. I did not
> try out pine yet.
>
> Questions:
>
> 1. Does anybody have a clue on what can cause a problem like this?
> 2. Which stable, easy to use gui mail client would you recommend if
> the mail client is the problem? (I have even downloaded the latest
> version of mahogany (rpm) but it is dependend on
> libwx_gtk-2.2.so.6 and potato has only libwx_gtk-2.2.so.0.2.1
> available.
>
> Thanks for your patience.
>
> Johann.
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> "For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and
> sharper than any twoedged sword, piercing even to
> dividing soul and spirit, joints and marrow; and is a
> discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart."
> Hebrews 4:12
>
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