Re: Problem sending with Balsa via SMTP

[Brian Stafford <brian stafford uklinux net>]

On Thu,  6 September 21:04 Justin Rebelo wrote:
>I just installed Balsa today on Slackware 8. I installed esmtp and pspell, as 
>required. I have set it all up for my email accounts now, and all seems well. 
>I can check my email and compose etc, however, I cannot send email. I am on 
>cable through @home service, and I have setup my SMTP server as 
>'mail.gv.shawcable.net' (For my area that is the correct SMTP server). When I 
>try to send something in Balsa, i get the "Sending..." dialog, but it just 
>sits and sits and never actually sends. I DID confirm that my smtp server 
>hostname is correct, I tried it in both evolution and mozilla, and it worked 
>perfectly fine. I Preffer the smaller, quicker interface of Balsa and would 
>prefer to get it working.
>
>Advice please?

Check the balsa list archives.  Diagnosing SMTP problems has been discussed
many times in depth - the information you need is there.

Brian