I had a similiar problem sending mail thru earthlink/mindstring/netcom. It's a long story but I will give you the short version. 1. I have email accounts with several ISP's. One of them is Earthlink. My main workstation (Mandrake Linux) has both a dial-up modem and a Cable Modem connection(LAN). 2. I can connect to internet using dial-up or thru Cable Modem. I can receive email from all email accounts via dial-up or Cable Modem. 3. To send email thru Earthlink, I must use their dial-up number. I cannot send thru Earthlink if I connect to internet thru Cable Modem or another ISP. This is a feature to prevent spam. 4. Normally, I use the dial-up connection only if the Cable Modem connection is down.If the Cable Modem conection goes down and I connect using the dial-up and then the Cable Modem connection comes back up. Which connection am I using? Well, it appears that if both connections are up then the Cable Modem(LAN) will be used. This is good. But what if I want to use the dial-up connection? To be sure the dial-up modem is used I must physically disconnect the Cable Modem(LAN) wire. This is not good but it works. -------------------- I hope my story helps with your problem. W. E.Brooks On Tue, 2001-11-06 at 17:35, Rick Rosinski wrote: > 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" > >Reply-To: plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us > >To: > >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 > > >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! > > > > > > > > _________________________________________________________________ > > > > 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 > > > > > >________________________________________________ > > >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 > > > >________________________________________________ > >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