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List:       kde-linux
Subject:    Re: [kde-linux] kmail and Rogers network
From:       Werner Joss <werner () hoernerfranzracing ! de>
Date:       2002-01-27 8:12:05
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On Saturday 26 January 2002 23:05, John Andersen wrote:
> On Friday 25 January 2002 08:27 am, Joe Simon wrote:
> > Sorry, let me clarify.
> >
> > My setup in Kmail (Network) is this:
> > SMTP Server name: smtp    (this is what rogers named it)
> > SMTP Server port: 25
> > POP3 Server name: pop     (this is what rogers named it)
> > POP3 Server port: 110
> > POP3 User Id:     XXXX@rogers.com
>
> Whats fishy here is "smtp" is not a fully qualified name.
> It should be smtp.rogers.com or something like that.
> Can you "ping smtp" and get it to work?
> (There are ways this can be accomplished but its
> extreemly unusual to see it set up that way).
>
> > With this I can only receivce mail, not send mail.
>
> And again I have to ask, WHY USE THEIR SMTP SERVER?
> This is Linux, right?  just use sendmail and let your
> machine deliver it directly.

this advise will work most of the time, but not always,
because more and more (companies) mailservers reject incoming mail
sent from dialup connections.
as a workaround, you could use yahoo.com as outgoing mail server
(which adds aome stupid ads, of course)
werner

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