RE: ISP has screwed up smtp for me... what to try? New ISP?
Hi Kevin,
I'll try this once I have a chance when I get home.
I don't have the other replies in front of me (since those are sucked
home from the school's server during the night), but did find that using
a login name which included the domain did the trick for Kmail. This I
noted in one of those emails.
I don't know about configuring exim for the client side stuff, though.
Does it try variations until a fit is found, or what? Something's still
amiss there, since changing the login name in the
/etc/exim4/client.passwd file (I think that's the name of it) did not
unfreeze the longish list waiting to be delivered (I restarted exim, of
course).
Kenward
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-----Original Message-----
From: Kevin Mark [mailto:kevin.mark@verizon.net]
Sent: Tuesday, September 26, 2006 9:52 AM
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: ISP has screwed up smtp for me... what to try? New ISP?
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
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