Re: [Evolution] can't send with ppp

[Sankar P <psankar novell com>]

On Tue, 2006-12-05 at 19:40 -0500, Michael Klinosky wrote:
> Hello.
> I just installed Fedora Core 6 on a machine that uses dial-up, and it 
> seems like something is misconfigured.
>
> That machine had SUSE 10.0, and Evolution was working fine. When I 
> booted FC 6 the first time, I tried to config Evo. I'm not sure that I'm 
> recalling the situation properly - just correct me if I'm confused.
>
> I can't get it to send emails (smtp). It'll retrieve fine (pop). I'm 
> guessing that I mistyped the password. (I believe that a window opens 
> when you tell it to send emails.) I tried creating another account - 
> still can't get it to work.
>
> It's not giving me a chance to re-enter the password. Am I missing 
> something?
>
> Some details: Interestingly, I *can* send to another address on the same 
> ISP (different domain, so maybe it's a different server). Evo doesn't 
> give me a clue as to the error, so I tried Thunderbird: it stated 
> something about the relay.
>
> Basically, I'd like to know if there's a way to make it think that it's 
> a virgin run. Is there a file to delete, or someway to force it to ask 
> for the password?


I am not sure if bad-password is the reason for your trouble. You can
choose to "forget passwords" from the File menu.

> From your "sending email" page in the account-editor
(Edit->preferences), see if you have enabled, "Server requires
authentication" and see if the security settings and the Authentication
Type is properly set.


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Sankar