I think you have covered nearly everything. Call Earthlink and speak with a
level2 tech and pass along your results. If Outlook Express works they will
point the problem as being on your computer.
I have been having allot of hassles with Kmail just the same and have been
thinking of changing to something else. Does anyone know other GUI mail
clients that run under X(KDE/GNOME) that may be worth consideration for home
use?
On Tuesday 06 November 2001 05:35 pm, you 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" <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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