Trouble sending email

[James Durham]

Rick,
    I have that same problem. I go to the outbox open the mail and try to 
send again. The problem is Earthlink has filters in place so you can only use 
there mail servers. So if you try to use another mail server it would 
continuely fail. I found that it fails for me the first time because it has 
to do all it's crap to verify the mail server I am connecting to. Then the 
second time I try to connect it works.

   Allot of companies have started to take this same approach to stopping 
spam. It is getting very annoying.

On Saturday 03 November 2001 04:25 am, you wrote:
> I just found out that I can't send email through kmail anymore.  It says
> that the smtp host couldn't be found.  I am an earthlink (formerly
> mindspring) subscriber.  My "real" email address has mindspring.com.  I was
> using mail.mindspring.com for smtp.  That worked until recently (the
> error). So, I checked the help pages on the web, and they want
> smtp.earthlink.net. I tried that, and got the same error.  Nothing on my
> system has been changed (especially KDE).  I kept the smtp port at 25 as it
> was before.  I also tried smtp.mindspring.com, mail.earthlink.net.
>
> And, I don't *DARE* try earthlink technical support - they always assume
> they know more than you, and when you try asking them questions, like "What
> SMTP port does your system use?", they'd answer the question with a
> question, like what system and software am I using? - evading my question,
> instead of them saying that "they don't know" - and they do not support
> Linux (only Windows and Mac.)
>
> Please help!
>
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