Re: Email embarrasment

[Tim Kelley <tpkelley@winkinc.com>]

On Thursday 12 April 2001 14:02, Johann Spies wrote:

Have you tried using her ISP's mail server for an MTA, instead of localhost?  
Unless you are using some MUA that does not have the ability to use a remote 
MTA there is no point and it just overcomplicates things.

Try telnetting directly to the smtp server on localhost and on the ISP and 
try to send a message, this will help diagnose the problem.  If this works, 
then the problem is in your exim or MUA configuration

Just do:

#telnet mail.mydomain.com 25

Then do when the server prompts:

MAIL From: you@whatever.net
 - server should respond OK -
RCPT To: somewebmailaccountyoucancheck@yahoo.com
- server should respond OK -
DATA
write a little message here
.
- server should respond "message accepted for delivery -

[remember the period at the end, that tells the server that the message is 
ended]
QUIT

Then check the mail of the address you sent it to.


> 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.

-- 
Tim Kelley
tpkelley@winkinc.com