On Tuesday 17 January 2006 23:48, Iain Buchanan wrote: > > Get the mail server (that you entered in you mail preferences), eg > mail.isp.com and type `dig mail.isp.com`. (dig is part of For your ip > address, I'm interested in your "real" world ip, but don't post it > here!! ifconfig will get it IFF your using a modem, or pci-adsl, but if > you have a networked modem/router, you'll need to connect to its status > page to see what ip address you have.
Is dig a command? I don't have it if it is. Keep in mind that I CAN send email just not to anyone outside my ISP and only with Mozilla. Kmail WILL send email on both OSs. I did get a error sometimes but Mozilla is consistant about his one. BTW, I did do a emerge -C mozilla and back up one version, still nothing. I have not done the older version on the new install though. I can if you want me too. > > They should be similar, however many isps have a few ip addresses that > may not be ranged together. > > Looking at your other posts though, I don't know that this will help... > > really? hmmm... > > I don't have kmail installed so I don't know how it works. Can you look > through the configuration to see if you can turn authentication on for > sending mail? I did have to put in my password for Kmail. I think they do the same way. It's just that Mozilla don't work is all. Well, on this OS, Mozilla won't even open. But it won't email on my new OS either. If this confuses you, let me know. I'll post a better explaination. > > Finally, you could do some sniffing with ethereal. Make a capture > filter so you don't get other junk, eg "host mail.exceedtech.net" and > then post the text-capture here. Your isp may be giving out a different > error which kmail is "translating" for you... > > post back if you need more help with ethereal. I did capture some data with ethereal before. I'm going to try to do that from my new install. I'm in my old install right now. I'm not sure why though. Habit I guess. I can't capture it here because Mozilla no longer works at all on this OS. Oh, what is UPSMON called now? I need to install it on my new OS but I can't find it. Even emerge -s ups didn't return it. Did they remove it? I'm going to boot the new OS, install ethereal then post from there, if I can. LOL Seriously, thanks for the help here. I'm totally lost. This is just to weird for me. I hope I am making sense. Dale :-) -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
