| Brian J Spooner on 15 Jul 2006 11:46:28 -0000 |
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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. -- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- | Stephen Gran | RHAPSODY in Glue! | | steve@lobefin.net | | | http://www.lobefin.net/~steve | | -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Steve, I have smtp-server = <No Value Set> in my pine config file, which works on another server I run. should I change that? brian ___________________________________________________________________________ Philadelphia Linux Users Group -- http://www.phillylinux.org Announcements - http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-announce General Discussion -- http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug 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. -- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- | Stephen Gran | RHAPSODY in Glue! | | steve@lobefin.net | | | http://www.lobefin.net/~steve | | -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Attachment:
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