From owner-freebsd-gnome Wed Jan 16 20:12:29 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org Received: from smtp.bmi.net (smtp.bmi.net [204.57.191.31]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C556037B416 for ; Wed, 16 Jan 2002 20:12:25 -0800 (PST) Received: from johncoop.MSHOME (drumheller-router.bmi.net [206.63.201.3] (may be forged)) by smtp.bmi.net (Pro-8.9.3/Pro-8.9.3) with ESMTP id UAA16954; Wed, 16 Jan 2002 20:11:59 -0800 Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2002 20:11:59 -0800 From: John Merryweather Cooper To: Joe Clarke Cc: jegjr@erols.com, freebsd-gnome@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Can't send mail from BALSA Message-ID: <20020116201159.A5004@johncoop.MSHOME> References: <1011232899.65943.2.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <1011232899.65943.2.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com>; from marcus@marcuscom.com on Wed, Jan 16, 2002 at 18:01:39 -0800 X-Mailer: Balsa 1.3.0 Lines: 49 Sender: owner-freebsd-gnome@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 2002.01.16 18:01 Joe Clarke wrote: > On Wed, 2002-01-16 at 20:24, jegjr@erols.com wrote: > > > > Greetings: > > > > I installed BALSA 1.3.0 via the ports. I can receive mail > from my ISP but I cannot send it. The error message I get is "SMTP > Server Error: (NULL). Not very helpful. I trying to figure out what > is wrong. Could someone give me some pointers. I am using gmail with > the same settings, so as far as I can tell the configuration is not an > issue. > > Make sure you've linked balsa against the most recent version of > libesmtp, and make sure you have an outgoing mail server configured in > Settings->Preferences->Outgoing Mail->Remote SMTP Server. > > The server should be of the format > > hostname:25 > > It works fine for me. > > Joe > > > > > Thanks John > > Note: If your sendmail, postfix, or whatever is configured properly, using localhost:25 will also usually work. If you're not using sendmail, postfix, or something else to transfer the mail to your ISP, then enter the ISP's name for the smtp/esmtp server. For example, on my system: smtp.bmi.net:25 Also note: some systems are configured to use port 587. If this is the case, replace 25 with 587. -- _ | |V| / ' || MacroHard -- \ \_| | | \_, || the perfection of form over | ----------------------------------|| substance, marketing over | Web: http://www.borgsdemons.com || performance, and greed over | AIM: johnmcooper || design . . . | =====================================================================/ Public Key: http://www.borgsdemons.com/Personal/pgpkey.asc | =====================================================================\ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-gnome" in the body of the message