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

[Jon Tai <jon tgpsolutions com>]

I use balsa on RH7.2 also.  
What is balsa configured to use as your SMTP server?

Is it's localhost?  If it is, make sure that sendmail is installed 
("rpm -q sendmail") and running ("/etc/rc.d/init.d/sendmail status").  
If it's some other server, (smtp.isp.net) have you used another mail 
client to send mail through that mail server before?  If not, try to 
test outgoing the mail server with another mail client to make sure 
it's configured properly and isn't down for maintenance or something.

Do you have libesmtp installed?  (I think RH7.2 installs it by default, 
check by running the command "rpm -q libesmtp")

Oh, and just for reference, what version of balsa are you using? 
- Jon


On 2001.12.30 20:06 Duane Douglas wrote:
> At 02:44 PM 12/31/2001 +1100, James McPherson - TSG Engineer wrote:
>> I'm not sure that you are allowed to have the first From line 
>> starting with
>> a space character (maybe one of the others on the list can advise). 
>> No matter,
>> have a look in your /var/log/syslog or /var/log/maillog and look for 
>> an error
>> message around the time you tried to send the mail. That should give 
>> you a
>> better pointer to what the issue is.
> 
> hmm...
> 
> i didn't see mail related error messages in these log files.
> 
> Duane Douglas
> ASP / SQL Server Tutoring and Training
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