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

[Duane Douglas <ddouglas mindspring com>]

At 08:39 PM 12/30/2001 -0800, Jon Tai wrote:
>I use balsa on RH7.2 also.
>What is balsa configured to use as your SMTP server?

the same smtp server that i'm using to send this message: mailhost.acedsl.com

>Is it's localhost?

no

>   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")

yes.  version 0.8.4

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

1.1.7


Duane Douglas
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