Re: cannot send mail from balsa (rh linux 7.2)

[Duane Douglas <ddouglas mindspring com>]

At 01:53 PM 12/31/2001 +1100, James McPherson - TSG Engineer wrote:

>On 31 Dec 2001, 01:36:26 PM Duane Douglas wrote:
>
> > i'm new to balsa and linux, so please bear with me.
> > i get the following error message when i attempt to send mail from balsa:
> > "Message delivery problem, placing it into your outbox. System will 
> attempt
> > to redeliver the message until you delete it."
> > afaik, pop and smtp are configured correctly.  can someone please help me
> > troubleshoot this?
>
>fire up your favourite text editor on whatever your outgoing mailbox is set
>to, and check the To: and Cc: fields. You may well find too many double quote
>
>"
>
>characters in those fields. Delete everything in the field outside of the
>address (either with or without the < or > characters), save the mailbox and
>then go back to balsa and choose "send queued mail"

here's the text of my outbox:

 From ddouglas@acedsl.com Sun Dec 30 21:08:31 2001
Date: Sun, 30 Dec 2001 21:08:31 -0500
From: Duane Douglas <ddouglas@acedsl.com>
To: ddouglas@acedsl.com
Subject: test
Message-ID: <20011230210831.C13512@grumpy.dog-media.com>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
X-Mailer: Balsa 1.1.7
Status: RO
Content-Length: 5
Lines: 1

test

 From ddouglas@acedsl.com Sun Dec 30 21:40:58 2001
Date: Sun, 30 Dec 2001 21:40:58 -0500
From: Duane Douglas <ddouglas@acedsl.com>
To: ddouglas@acedsl.com
Subject: test
Message-ID: <20011230214058.A13758@grumpy.dog-media.com>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
X-Mailer: Balsa 1.1.7
Status: RO
Content-Length: 5
Lines: 1

test


it looks fine to me.

Duane Douglas
ASP / SQL Server Tutoring and Training