As I am having a problem with my email sending I am looking another time in DHCP, DNS etc. without much hope of understanding a thing.It si still an alphabet soup and that what I have found searching does not help much. What I am looking for is some publication which takes you step by step through the whole rigmarole and explains what you should/may/should not do. Has somebody a source or is somebody prepared to guide me step by step through the process? The simple problem that I can connect to the web (and use this webservice to write my email) but that I does not seem to be able to connect to the two possible smtp servers makes me wonder if they read the same information sources and if so what the next step would be to fine tune everything to get a better service from my system. ___________________________________________________________ indomail - Your everyday mail - http://indomail.indo.net.id
On 11/11/2005 02:19 AM, constant@indo.net.id wrote:
As I am having a problem with my email sending I am looking another time in DHCP, DNS etc. without much hope of understanding a thing.It si still an alphabet soup and that what I have found searching does not help much. What I am looking for is some publication which takes you step by step through the whole rigmarole and explains what you should/may/should not do. Has somebody a source or is somebody prepared to guide me step by step through the process? The simple problem that I can connect to the web (and use this webservice to write my email) but that I does not seem to be able to connect to the two possible smtp servers makes me wonder if they read the same information sources and if so what the next step would be to fine tune everything to get a better service from my system. If you can connect to the web, it doesn't seem to be a DNS issue. What email client(s) have you tried, and how are you connecting to these mail servers (eg are you using a smtp server on your own system)? What error messages, if any, are you getting back from them when you try to send mail?
On Saturday 12 November 2005 01:29, Darryl Gregorash wrote:
On 11/11/2005 02:19 AM, constant@indo.net.id wrote:
As I am having a problem with my email sending I am looking another time in DHCP, DNS etc. without much hope of
The simple problem that I can connect to the web (and use this webservice to write my email) but that I does not seem to be able to connect to the two possible smtp servers
If you can connect to the web, it doesn't seem to be a DNS issue. What email client(s) have you tried, and how are you connecting to these mail servers (eg are you using a smtp server on your own system)? What error messages, if any, are you getting back from them when you try to send mail?
For email I use Kmail. Until a month or two Kmail got its email direct from the ISP, but after reinstalling an ethernet card I just accepted the proposal to install the mail ... Looked around and after finding nothing which I understood good enough to damage my working system I did not venture further. But somehow I must have started something because since then the mail is somewhere parked before I get it with Kmail. In my Gkrellm I see emails entering as new if I have stopped Kmail. It works but do not ask me how and what ;) My send problem does pop up sometimes but is solved now again without my intervention. I get than the info from kmail that the email(s) will stay in the outbox and all new send mails will remain there until I should have repaired a broken address or so. I have the feeling that somewhere in the mailing instalation something is not really finished.
On 11/12/2005 05:46 AM, C. Brouerius van Nidek wrote:
On Saturday 12 November 2005 01:29, Darryl Gregorash wrote:
On 11/11/2005 02:19 AM, constant@indo.net.id wrote:
As I am having a problem with my email sending I am looking another time in DHCP, DNS etc. without much hope of
The simple problem that I can connect to the web (and use this webservice to write my email) but that I does not seem to be able to connect to the two possible smtp servers
If you can connect to the web, it doesn't seem to be a DNS issue. What email client(s) have you tried, and how are you connecting to these mail servers (eg are you using a smtp server on your own system)? What error messages, if any, are you getting back from them when you try to send mail?
For email I use Kmail. Until a month or two Kmail got its email direct from the ISP, but after reinstalling an ethernet card I just accepted the proposal to install the mail ... Looked around and after finding nothing which I understood good enough to damage my working system I did not venture further. But somehow I must have started something because since then the mail is somewhere parked before I get it with Kmail. In my Gkrellm I see emails entering as new if I have stopped Kmail. It works but do not ask me how and what ;)
My send problem does pop up sometimes but is solved now again without my intervention. I get than the info from kmail that the email(s) will stay in the outbox and all new send mails will remain there until I should have repaired a broken address or so.
I have the feeling that somewhere in the mailing instalation something is not really finished. Check /var/log/mail* to see what is being logged. /var/log/mail.err should tell you what is failing on those occasions when you can't connect to a server. It might be nothing more than the remote server occasionally being unable to accept a connection.
On Sunday 13 November 2005 10:55, Darryl Gregorash wrote:
On 11/12/2005 05:46 AM, C. Brouerius van Nidek wrote:
On Saturday 12 November 2005 01:29, Darryl Gregorash wrote:
On 11/11/2005 02:19 AM, constant@indo.net.id wrote: For email I use Kmail. Until a month or two Kmail got its email direct from the ISP, but after reinstalling an ethernet card I just accepted the
I have the feeling that somewhere in the mailing instalation something is not really finished.
Check /var/log/mail* to see what is being logged.
postfix seems to get the mail, parks it at @localhost and after a small delay moves it to the mailbox.
/var/log/mail.err should tell you what is failing on those occasions when you can't connect to a server. It might be nothing more than the remote server occasionally being unable to accept a connection.
You are right. At least I found info at the mail.err which confirms your idea.
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C. Brouerius van Nidek
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constant@indo.net.id
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Darryl Gregorash