Re: [gentoo-user] need help with kmail

On Tuesday 03 January 2006 02:10, a tiny voice compelled Rumen Yotov to write:
> On (02/01/06 17:31), brettholcomb@×××××××××.net wrote:
> > Ernie, are you doing anything special here?  I'm running KDE and simply
> > went into the accounts and set up my pop server (mail.bellsouth.net) and
> > it works.  Same for T-bird.  BTW, look at Korn for a newsreader .

I'm not trying to do anything special... just get kmail to send mail. I have a
bellsouth account as well as a Netplex account. Both were set up for pop server
and worked fine until I deleted old KDE versions and did some house cleaning. It
would seem that I removed what ever is supposed to handle authentication to my
ISP's SMTP server, or possibly I borked some config file somewhere. IIRC, when
I installed Gentoo 3 years ago, I set it up to use the reccomended MTA, and
everything just worked. I can't tell what, if anything I may have done to blow
the mail sending, but, in all honesty, I've tried a lot of ways to fix this and
am unsure of all the changes I've made. What MTA are you using? I've seen in my
searches something written about MDA's but can't find out what, if any MDA I
should be running or what an MDA does.
> >
> > > From: schroder@×××××.net
> > > Date: 2006/01/02 Mon PM 05:22:55 EST
> > > To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
> > > Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] need help with kmail
> > >
> > > On Monday 02 January 2006 11:53, a tiny voice compelled Rumen Yotov to
write:
> > > > Hi,
> > > > Not very much help, but it seems you're using a postfix server to
> > > > process to mail.
> > >
> > > I've got no idea how to set up postfix. If I'm going to use it, I'll
> > > need a howto or some pointers. I only installed postfix to try to get
> > > kmail working. In order to run kmail or thunderbird, what MTA should I
> > > be using? I obviously blew off something when I did a depclean and I'm
> > > lost at this point as to what I need to get email sending working
> > > again.I have a mepis CD here. I'm thinking I should boot to that and
> > > see what I can figure out. does anyone have suggestions as to what I
> > > should be looking for?
> > >
> > > I've looked at qmail, it seems postfix blocks it. I suppose I won't be
> > > any worse off without postfix. I'll read up on qmail and see if it will
> > > serve my purpose for the short term, but I REALLY want to get kmail
> > > working. I'm becomming obsessed, perturbed and frustrated.
> > > --
> > > Regards, Ernie
> > > 100% Microsoft and Intel free
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> Hi,
> You don't need 'postfix' (nor 'qmail') to send mail using your ISP's
> mail-servers. So check (and change if need be) the settings in Kmail&TB to
> use your ISP mail-server. Currenly you must be using the local postfix
> server to process the mail and as it's not configured it breaks. Usually
> it's something like: mail.ISP-name-here.com Check again username & password
> for the server. Unmerge 'postfix' - not needed. HTH.Rumen

user name and password are correct, or I wouldn't be able to access the webmail
interface. I'm thinking that I am lacking a service or that my MTA is not being
seen. IMHP, I am missing something very basic in my mail setup, but I'm
thouroughly lost. (postfix unmerged)
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Regards, Ernie
100% Microsoft and Intel free

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