Hi, she is not sending mail as root, isn't she? I have heard that the mail goes directly to /dev/null with some installations (well, had it with RedHat, I was already discouraged sending mail as root when I went Debian).
Greetz, Sebastiaan On Thu, 12 Apr 2001, Johann Spies wrote: > Sorry for the long message, but I do not know how to explain my > problem much shorter. > > My daughter has a laptop and when she complained about the instability > of Windows 95 I suggested that she try out Linux. She agreed and I > installed Stormix Hail on her laptop - what a pleasure to install > Linux using Stormix - and now she uses Linux most of the time on her > dual boot laptop. It is an dialup system using exim as mta. > > For about a week there was now serious trouble and she was enjoying > it. Then the trouble started: She complained that kde's mail client > did not send her messages and lost the messages (previously it worked > without a problem). I did not know kde's mail client and thought the > problem might be that it is unstable like balsa. As my daughter wants > to use a gui mail client, I decided to install XFMail for her. The > same happened with xfmail. I first configured it on my own computer > and when I had it working, I duplicated the configuration on hers - > and then there were problems again: After composing mail, click on the > send button and nothing happens - not an error message an no message > in the mail queue. I then in desperation first tried to configure > netscape's mail on my own computer to work with my own dialup-system > en got it to work. Tried it out on hers, and it works en every way > but for sending mail. Netscape reacts on the send command as if it is > sending the message, but nothing shows up in the mail queue. When I > try out mutt on her system, there is no problem, but Mutt is a bit > difficult to learn for an ex-Windows user with not much time at hands. > > The situation is a bit of an embarrasment to me who who constantly > advocates that the time is ready for Linux to be the operating system > of average computer users and that it is more stable than Windows. > > I do not know where to look for the problem. > > Some configurations (on both my computer [a desktop] and hers): > > Potato / Hail on both systems. Everything works on mine as it should > (I did not try out kmail on mine as I do not have kde on mine). > > MTA exim. > > Xfmail|Misc|Conf Misc|Send: Send Method: Sendmail > SMTP Host: 127.0.0.1 Port 25 > Sendmail path: /usr/bin/sendmail > Options -i > DSN Options: -R hdrs -N > failure.delay.success > Send Properties: SMTP log > > Netscape: Incoming Mail Servers: (Using Movemail) > Outgoing SMTP-server: localhost > Outgoing Mail server user name: <not specified> > > Sending mail using "mail" or mutt work without a problem. I did not > try out pine yet. > > Questions: > > 1. Does anybody have a clue on what can cause a problem like this? > 2. Which stable, easy to use gui mail client would you recommend if > the mail client is the problem? (I have even downloaded the latest > version of mahogany (rpm) but it is dependend on > libwx_gtk-2.2.so.6 and potato has only libwx_gtk-2.2.so.0.2.1 > available. > > Thanks for your patience. > > Johann. > -- > J.H. Spies - Tel. 082 782 0336. Posbus 4668, Tygervallei 7536 > "For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and > sharper than any twoedged sword, piercing even to > dividing soul and spirit, joints and marrow; and is a > discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart." > Hebrews 4:12 > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >
