Trouble sending email
Rick Rosinski
plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us
Tue, 06 Nov 2001 17:35:23 -0700
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O.K. I have tried almost all suggestions that were posted. Telneting via
"telnet mail.mindspring.com 25" worked - said it connected and all. THe
ping -c 4 worked fine, as did the nslookup command. No jams anywhere. I
have included the /etc/resolv.conf file if this helps. I have also changed
my email address to borgking@mindspring.com rather than
rick@rickrosinski.com to see if that would help, but it failed also. The
only things I haven't done yet was to try it through outlook express. I
will try that before calling the techs back.
Any suggestions?
BTW: Thanks for all of the response!
>From: "John Albee" <guesswho911@home.com>
>Reply-To: plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us
>To: <plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us>
>Subject: RE: Trouble sending email
>Date: Mon, 5 Nov 2001 18:33:19 -0700
>
>I am not sure as to your level of computer experience, but you may want to
>try a manual smtp connection to mail.mindspring.com using telnet. There
>are
>several tutorial on the net showing how to do this. This may give you some
>insite to your problem.
>
>John Albee
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: plug-discuss-admin@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us
>[mailto:plug-discuss-admin@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us]On Behalf Of Rick
>Rosinski
>Sent: Monday, November 05, 2001 5:50 PM
>To: plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us
>Subject: Re: Trouble sending email
>
>
>James,
>
>I try over and over again, resending the same message through the outbox.
>I
>called customer suppport, and they gave me a new dial-up number, saying
>that
>the old number wouldn't allow people to send email. That didn't work. He
>told me to keep mail.mindspring.com since I am a mindspring subscriber. I
>receive mail just fine, but I can't send the mail no matter what. I tried
>many combinations of smtp - smtp.mindspring.com, mail.smtp.mindspring.com,
>smtp.mail.mindspring.com, smtp.earthlink.net, mail.earthlink.net, every
>damn
>thing.
>
>Any more ideas?
>
>Thanks for the help.
>
>
> >From: James Durham <helody@jps.net>
> >Reply-To: plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us
> >To: plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us
> >Subject: Re: Trouble sending email
> >Date: Sat, 3 Nov 2001 13:28:06 -0700
> >
> >
> >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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