Re: SMTP refuses to send messages

[Brian Stafford <brian stafford uklinux net>]

On 2003.07.23 00:20, Francisco Ortiz Santini wrote:
> 
> > For your information, I have just successfully sent mail to you with
> the
> > smtp server set to
> > mail.prtc.net:smtp
> >
> > I am really curious why it does not work for you. Which version of
> > libestmp have you got? Have you built balsa yourself?
> >
> > -pawel
> 
> Pawel:
> 
> I don't know how or why, but it's working! I can swear for my mother
> that I tried both "mail.prtc.net:smtp" and "mail.prtc.net:25" on
> several
> occasions and never worked. Now, it worked immediately using both
> settings! aaargh! I have no explanation for this.
> For the record, I am using libesmtp 0.8.12-5 and I always use rpms.
> 
> Thank you very much for your help. I really wanted Balsa to work
> because
> I believe right now is the best mailer around and works exactly as I
> need, specially with Galeon. Thanks again.
> 
> Francisco

Hmmm, perhaps there was a temporary problem with the SMTP server; it 
can happen.  As always a good diagnostic tool is the mail-file program 
that is part of the libESMTP distro.  Using this has been described 
many times on this list, a search on the archives will quickly locate 
it.

Cheers
Brian