Re: problem sending mails

[Jack <ostroffjh sbcglobal net>]

[this time let's try it to the list...]

On 2011.09.12 00:31, Ildar Mulyukov wrote:
> On 10.09.2011 07:43:28, Jack wrote:
> > Peter's patch worked for the problem receiving more than once in  
> > balsa under
> > cygwin.  Unfortunately, I'm now having a problem sending, and all I  
> > get is a
> > popup saying: Message submission problem.  I know -d debugs pop3 and  
> > -D debugs
> > imap - is there (or can there be) anything to debug smtp sending?   
> > It worked
> > fine less than an hour ago, so I'm stumped.
>
> 	Hi, Jack!
> Check that balsa is built with libesmtp. I guess sendmail doesn't  
> work right in your Cygwin installation.
> Anyway sending ./configure log's tail would show us more details.
>
> Regards,
> --
Ildar

Thanks for the reply.  As I suspected, it was a configuration issue,  
not really balsa's fault.  I played with ~/.balsa/config and I can  
send.  I still get too frequent "server errors" on receiving, and this  
"Message submission problem" less often.  I finally found that the  
"debug" checkbox on the preferences screen yet does show some smtp  
messages.  My problem mainly seems to be that interacting with yahoo  
via pop3 or smtp is very unpredictable.  I can hit "Check mail" many  
times and get some combination of good retrieve, bad name/password, and  
internal server error as responses.  Likewise for sending - sometimes  
it goes, sometimes I get the error.  No detectible pattern.  I just  
have to make a secure backup of my config files in case they get  
changed.

However, while I'm asking, I have another issue, again - not sure if  
it's really Cygwin related or not.  I clearly don't have gnome-keyring  
working correctly, so I would assume as backup, balsa would store my  
mailbox passwords in the config and congif-private files, but it  
doesn't, and I have to enter them every time I run balsa.  (It does  
remember them for multiple mail retrieves within the same invocation.)   
Is this a build time issue, a configuration issue, or ???  It does seem  
to remember the smtp password, but not the pop3 one.

Thanks.

Jack