Run ethereal before you send your mail and watch the transaction. This will give you a much better idea of what the problem is. George Rick Rosinski wrote: > > Richard, > > I called customer service, told them my issue. They told me to keep > mail.mindspring.com, but they gave me a new phone number saying that the old > one caused problems for those sending email (which was strainge). I tried > the number, and the same error happens, even with mail.smtp.mindspring.com > (and smtp.mail.mindspring.com, and even smtp.mindspring.com) Customer > support (of course) does not support Linux (really big drag). I can ping > mail.mindspring.com. > > >From: "Richard L. Proctor" > >Reply-To: plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us > >To: > >Subject: Re: Trouble sending email > >Date: Sat, 3 Nov 2001 10:41:48 -0700 > > > > > >----- Original Message ----- > >From: Rusty Carruth > >To: > >Sent: Saturday, November 03, 2001 11:03 AM > >Subject: Re: Trouble sending email > > > > > > > > > > > > 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 > > > > > > > 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. > > > > also tried smtp.mindspring.com, mail.earthlink.net. > > > > > > Can you ping any of them? I just tried to ping smtp.earthlink.net > > > and it worked fine (giving me an address of 207.217.120.207). > > > > > > What does your /etc/resolv.conf say? Can you ping any other > > > hosts? (Basically, it sounds to me like your DNS setup is messed > > > up somehow) > > > >Rusty, > > > >Earthlink wants you to use smtp.earthlink.net ?? Is that correct? If so, > >please try mail.smtp.earthlink.net Also contact customer support. Don't > >depend on the web pages as they are not often up to date on recent changes. > > > > > >-- > >Richard L. Proctor > >Krystal Computer Services > >PC Upgrades & Repairs > >480-699-3098 > > > >________________________________________________ > >See http://PLUG.phoenix.az.us/navigator-mail.shtml if your mail doesn't > >post to the list quickly and you use Netscape to write mail. > > > >PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us > >http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > > _________________________________________________________________ > Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp > > ________________________________________________ > See http://PLUG.phoenix.az.us/navigator-mail.shtml if your mail doesn't post to the list quickly and you use Netscape to write mail. > > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss