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For what you're doing you don't need the MTA or MDAs. I just installed KDE |
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3.4 on one of my Gentoo systems and all I did was goto the accounts setup and |
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point it at bellsouth mailserver, enter the username,etc. and it worked. KDE |
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allows you to set up several accounts as you know and handles them very well. |
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Maybe to got Settings->configure kmail and set up a new test account that only |
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goes to Bellsouth. |
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On Tuesday 03 January 2006 09:57, schroder@×××××.net wrote: |
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> On Tuesday 03 January 2006 02:10, a tiny voice compelled Rumen Yotov to |
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write: |
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> > On (02/01/06 17:31), brettholcomb@×××××××××.net wrote: |
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> > > Ernie, are you doing anything special here? I'm running KDE and simply |
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> > > went into the accounts and set up my pop server (mail.bellsouth.net) |
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> > > and it works. Same for T-bird. BTW, look at Korn for a newsreader . |
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> I'm not trying to do anything special... just get kmail to send mail. I |
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> have a bellsouth account as well as a Netplex account. Both were set up for |
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> pop server and worked fine until I deleted old KDE versions and did some |
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> house cleaning. It would seem that I removed what ever is supposed to |
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> handle authentication to my ISP's SMTP server, or possibly I borked some |
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> config file somewhere. IIRC, when I installed Gentoo 3 years ago, I set it |
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> up to use the reccomended MTA, and everything just worked. I can't tell |
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> what, if anything I may have done to blow the mail sending, but, in all |
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> honesty, I've tried a lot of ways to fix this and am unsure of all the |
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> changes I've made. What MTA are you using? I've seen in my searches |
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> something written about MDA's but can't find out what, if any MDA I should |
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> be running or what an MDA does. |
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Brett I. Holcomb |
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