On Sat, Apr 03, 2004 at 04:42:07PM -0500 or thereabouts, user86 wrote:
On Saturday 03 April 2004 13:16, John Andersen wrote:
On Saturday 03 April 2004 07:54, Glenn wrote:
I've installed SuSE 8.2 on my laptop and would like to be able to send email via my hometown ISP's SMTP server.I've got an AT&T dialup which I'll be using as my ISP when travelling.
happens until I get the message "Error while performing operation: Could not connect to mail.kpunet.net (port 25):Connection timed out."
I've tried a variety of SMTP login configurations, (POP before SMTP, Login and Plain) with no sucess.
This is not unusual. Most ISPs won't allow someone not on their network to send mail thu them unless its to one of their cutomers.
You have to make another network in Kmail that has the outgoing smtp server set up to go thru ATT's smtp server.
But, you are running linux, not windows. Why don't you just install sendmail or postfix that came with SuSE and let your computer be it's own mail transport agent?? That's the way Linux was supposed to work.
That wouldn't work if you are trying to email certain ISPs (such as AOL) that block "dynamic IP ranges" of plenty of ISPs from sending mail direct to their customers.
yes it does work if you set your MTA, eg, postfix, sendmail, or qmail to relay through his ISP's SMTP for those specific domains such as aol.com, otherwise use his standard MTA to send for those not listed... this is done in the smtp routing file of MTAs. -- Gary Your E-Mail has been returned due to insufficient voltage