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

[Jon Tai <jon tgpsolutions com>]

Is the machine you're sending this message from the same machine you're 
running RH on?  If not, perhaps your ISP is not allowing mail relay for 
your linux machine?

I can't think of anything else that could be the problem.  Anyone 
else?  
- Jon


On 2001.12.30 20:53 Duane Douglas wrote:
> 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
> ASP / SQL Server Tutoring and Training
> 
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