Stan Goodman wrote:

Per Jessen wrote:

Stan Goodman wrote:

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That's been happening since this morning. Incoming mail and the web are accessible. Hits for this error message, when they are about email, seem to want to blame the server, but this is happening with three different servers, and another machine has not problem with the same servers.

I have not found anything helpful by way of troubleshooting, and have no idea how to seek the source of the problem. Help?

Where are you seeing this error message? In the mail-log? Have you tried contacting the mail-server with telnet? (just to check connectivity).

I <send> the message in Kmail; the progress window at bottom right remains at 0%; after a time, the time-out message appears.

I do not see how the problem can be at the ISP, because it has persisted for two days, and has not affected a second machine, which is able to send mail properly through the same ISP.

Right, so it has to be your local machine or something in between (fireweall, gateway etc). You could try looking at the outbound traffic: "tcpdump -n -i ethX port 25" or "tcpdump -n -i ethX port 587" -- Per Jessen, Zürich (9.9°C) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org