Not using Comcast, but it turns out that my SMTP port was 587. That discovery fixed my problem.
Thanks, all, for the help. David R -----Original Message----- From: Leonard Evens <l...@math.northwestern.edu> Reply-to: l...@math.northwestern.edu To: david <da...@ransier.com> Cc: evolution-list@gnome.org Subject: Re: [Evolution] cannot send email Date: Sun, 25 Oct 2009 23:02:01 -0500 On Sat, 2009-10-24 at 08:37 -0800, david wrote: > In the last week I installed Ubuntu 9.04 on one of my older PCs (Athlon64 > CPU). It's been a while but I'm familiar with Linux and Unix. > > I'm trying to use Evolution email. (I'm new to Evolution.) The incoming email > is working OK, but outgoing fails to connect. > > I've mirrored the connection information with my Windows PC - SMTP with > Login. > > I can Ping the smtp server, but email will not connect. If I click the button > under authentication to Check for Authentication Types, it eventually times > out. Though the same button under receiving email works correctly. > > I did scan the bug list and tried the suggestion to delete my outgoing mail > and create a fresh one. The assumption being the outgoing mail may have been > malformed. No change. > > > Thanks for any help, > David Ransier Are you using Comcast for your internet connection? If so, your outgoing mail server has to be listening on port 587, and you have to configure evolution to send to that port. The default is port 25, but Comcast, and possibly other ISPs, is blocking traffic using port 25. They claim they do so to block spam. They may or may not notify you that they are doing it. To configure evolution to use port 587, you add :587 at the end of the address of the outgoing mail server in evolution's configuration. configuration file. > _______________________________________________ > Evolution-list mailing list > Evolution-list@gnome.org > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list _______________________________________________ Evolution-list mailing list Evolution-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
