Hi,
In my haste to reply, I think I confused myself a bit (and you :)
On Wed, 2006-01-18 at 00:05 -0600, Dale wrote:
> 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
[snip]
I started typing "(dig is part of bind-tools)" but I forgot I was
editing my email in the middle...
Anyway, I think that's barking up the wrong tree, although you could try
it if you feel like doing the exercise!
> > 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.
oh yeah, its mozilla that doesn't work... *hit self on head*
In your mozilla "mail and newsgroup account settings" what options do
you have set for "outgoing server(smtp)"?
> > Finally, you could do some sniffing with ethereal.
> I did capture some data with ethereal before. I'm going to try to do that
> from my new install.
ok. I'll wait and see.
> Oh, what is UPSMON called now?
`esearch ups` shows (among others):
dev-perl/Business-UPS
net-misc/ups-monitor
sys-power/apcupsd
esearch is part of the package "esearch" (surprise surprise) its not the
favourite portage search cache, but I like it.
> 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?
try `emerge -S ups` - the uppercase S will search descriptions as well.
> Seriously, thanks for the help here. I'm totally lost. This is just to
> weird
> for me. I hope I am making sense.
no worries. hope we can get somewhere...
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