Re: [PLUG] SMTP greeting failure

[Stephen Gran <steve@lobefin.net>]

On Fri, Jul 14, 2006 at 09:46:12PM -0400, Brian J Spooner said:
> 
> Can someone tell me what causes me to get this error message when I try to
> send mail in pine (RHEL3):
> [Error sending: SMTP greeting failure: 421 SMTP connection went away!]
> 
> I am receiving mail, but cannot send.

It sounds like you have pine set up to send mail via smtp, rather than
by using the /usr/sbin/sendmail binary.  The latter is recommended for
MUA connections, since it is usually set up to be more liberal in what
it expects from submissions.
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