Well if it continues to fail over and over it could be a problem with there 
filters. What e-mail address are you trying to send from? Your 
@mindspring.com? Make sure you don't have a personal firewall up. If that 
fails I would (I know everyone will hate this) try a windows or Mac machine. 
If you try those machines and it doesn't work at least if you call Earthlink 
back up they can support the software your using. If you need to call,  
immediatly ask for a level2 or ask the technician to consult a level2.

On Monday 05 November 2001 05:49 pm, you wrote:
> 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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