Re: Continuing balsa problems: sending mail

[PSR <rkimber ntlworld com>]

On Tuesday 17 July 2001 22:49, you wrote:
> On 2001.07.17 22:00:39 +0200 PSR wrote:
> > I'm not clear how to set up balsa-1.1.7 to send mail.  If I put my smtp
> > server [ smtp.ntlworld.com ] in the preferences balsa hangs when I try to
> > send anything. Yet if I leave the default setting [ localhost:25 ] balsa
> > appears to work but I don't think the messages get to their destination
>
> Tried "smtp.ntlworld.com:25"? If you don't have the :25 at the end,
> libesmtp uses the default port which is 587 (which is the new standard, see
> RFC 2476). Most commercial servers don't use this port yet (although the
> standard is more than a year old).
>
> Commercial software vendors tend to be "a bit" slower on adopting new
> standards, unless they come up with them themselves.

Yes, I tried that option, too.  I should have mentioned that. If I do that I 
get a 'Message delivery problem' message, rather than a hang.

- Richard.
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Richard Kimber
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