Kenward Vaughan wrote: > Hi folks, > > I hate writing this from my school's web access page, but I suddenly lost the > ability to send emails from home. Receiving is fine. Nothing had changed at > my end from the night before, when I had no problems. My ISP is Earthlink. > > I couldn't figure out originally what the issue was, until I tried using both > Balsa and Kmail instead of mutt/exim. The error messages returned indicated > that they needed to be configured for authentication. > > Fine. Set that up, seemingly no-brainer choices in the menus, including a > test to see what the server supported. Nothing works. Tried all > combinations the apps gave me. > > Tried to configure exim4 to do the same, putting the full addresses that host > gave me for smtp.earthlink.net and smtpauth.earthlink.net along with a user > ID/password for each. Even added the option about using clear text over > unencrypted lines. > > All no go. I've got a bunch of frozen messages, with no place to go. > > I chatted with Earthlink, which was futile. "We do not support alternate > OS's." I told them both in the chat and questionaire at the end that such an > attitude really stank, that they would lose me if I don't find an answer from > somewhere, and that this was no good for their good will in the community. > > I looked through their docs on reconfiguring various email apps and plugged > in those values into Kmail/Balsa with no luck (includin a port of 587 for the > smtpauth addresses). > > Doesn't someone out there have an earthlink account, and how do you set > things up? Is something sitting there staring me in the face that will work? >
I believe I'd try telnetting to their smtp server, something like: telnet smtp.earthlink.com 587 and see if you can log in with your username/password. If not, you've got a username/password/account problem. But I've never done this, so don't know the exact steps. I'd suspect Google to be your friend. -- Kent West Westing Peacefully <http://kentwest.blogspot.com> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
