On Mon, Sep 25, 2006 at 07:03:21PM -0700, Kenward Vaughan wrote: > Hi folks, > > I hate writing this from my school's web access page, but I suddenly lost the ability to send emails from home. Receiving is fine. Nothing had changed at my end from the night before, when I had no problems. My ISP is Earthlink. > > I couldn't figure out originally what the issue was, until I tried using both Balsa and Kmail instead of mutt/exim. The error messages returned indicated that they needed to be configured for authentication. > > Fine. Set that up, seemingly no-brainer choices in the menus, including a test to see what the server supported. Nothing works. Tried all combinations the apps gave me. > > Tried to configure exim4 to do the same, putting the full addresses that host gave me for smtp.earthlink.net and smtpauth.earthlink.net along with a user ID/password for each. Even added the option about using clear text over unencrypted lines. > > All no go. I've got a bunch of frozen messages, with no place to go. > > I chatted with Earthlink, which was futile. "We do not support alternate OS's." I told them both in the chat and questionaire at the end that such an attitude really stank, that they would lose me if I don't find an answer from somewhere, and that this was no good for their good will in the community. > > I looked through their docs on reconfiguring various email apps and plugged in those values into Kmail/Balsa with no luck (includin a port of 587 for the smtpauth addresses). > > Doesn't someone out there have an earthlink account, and how do you set things up? Is something sitting there staring me in the face that will work? > > TIA, > > Hi Kenward, apt-get install swaks and show what settings made if work. cheers, Kev -- | .''`. == Debian GNU/Linux == | my web site: | | : :' : The Universal | debian.home.pipeline.com | | `. `' Operating System | go to counter.li.org and | | `- http://www.debian.org/ | be counted! #238656 | | my keysever: pgp.mit.edu | my NPO: cfsg.org |
Attachment:
signature.asc
Description: Digital signature