rohitsz Posted June 22, 2005 Report Share Posted June 22, 2005 greetiings there... i was trying to configure KMail, i just need to use the yahoo acount for sending mails thru KMail. i tried filling these fields... Kontact>Settings>Configure Kmail created a yahoo account in IDENTITY In the NETWORK tab, for sending i filled these fields.. Add a account for sending General Tab Name:smtp.yahoo.com Host:smtp.yahoo.com port:25 Back in Sending Tab Default Domain:yahoo.com when i send a mail.. i get the following error... Sending failed: Connection to host smtp.mail.yahoo.com is broken The message will stay in the 'outbox' folder until you either fix the problem (e.g. a broken address) or remove the message from the 'outbox' folder. The following transport protocol was used: smtp.mail.yahoo.com help me configure yahoo's mail sending opption. thanks, rohit. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ianw1974 Posted June 22, 2005 Report Share Posted June 22, 2005 Are you using authenticated smtp? Yahoo states: If you have set the "Outgoing Mail (SMTP) Server" field in Yahoo! Mail to smtp.mail.yahoo.com, have set your client to use authenticated SMTP, and find that you can receive but cannot send messages, then you may need to use port 587 when sending via Yahoo!'s SMTP server. Link to info: http://help.yahoo.com/help/us/mail/pop/pop-11.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rohitsz Posted June 22, 2005 Author Report Share Posted June 22, 2005 Hi again ian :-) i am not using any kinda authentication for sending... also i have the yahoo's free account, so does it anyways provide sending the mails thru email clients? i do not want to receive the mail, i mean after 1GB on web, who needs to download them! so i am just wanting to set-up the sending part of it. regards, rohit. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ianw1974 Posted June 22, 2005 Report Share Posted June 22, 2005 You'll probably get an email from Yahoo later saying you need to upgrade to Yahoo Plus to use their SMTP service. The sending through an email client isn't allowed from what I remember for free, you have to subscribe to a service. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xthaparian Posted June 22, 2005 Report Share Posted June 22, 2005 yup..ian is right you have to subscribe to yahoo Premium service to get the pop account but that not true for mail.yahoo.ca if you have account from canada the pop mail service is free. But why dont you use gmail account for Pop mail??? its a free account..... If you have have an invitation, then tell me I can give you free invitation. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aioshin Posted June 23, 2005 Report Share Posted June 23, 2005 (edited) you have linux, then try to install postfix in you box, that would allow you to send email, if you ISP did not block port 25... basic guide here http://www.postfix.org/BASIC_CONFIGURATION_README.html or maybe postfix is already running on your box, you just dont notice it, check $netstat -an | grep tcp if you'll see something like 0.0.0.0:25 then an mta or postfix is running in your box, just waiting to be configured. btw, if you are using mandrake, postfix is the default mta or mail transfer agent, in Redhat or Fedora, its sendmail i think if im not wrong edit: you may try this http://yahoopops.sourceforge.net/index.php Edited June 23, 2005 by aioshin Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rohitsz Posted June 23, 2005 Author Report Share Posted June 23, 2005 Greetiings there, i am using MDK 10.1 here's my netstat output... [root@localhost root]# netstat -an |grep tcp tcp 0 0 127.0.0.1:32768 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:3306 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:111 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:6000 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:7741 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN tcp 0 0 :::80 :::* LISTEN tcp 0 0 :::6000 :::* LISTEN [root@localhost root]# i did't have post-fix. i installed.. it got me worried.. [root@localhost root]# urpmi postfix To satisfy dependencies, the following 2 packages are going to be installed (4 MB): libpostfix1-2.1.4-2mdk.i586 postfix-2.1.4-2mdk.i586 Is this OK? (Y/n) Y Please insert the medium named "Installation CD 1 " on device [/dev/hdc] Press Enter when ready... Please insert the medium named "Installation CD 1 " on device [/dev/hdc] Press Enter when ready... installing /mnt/cdrom/media/main/libpostfix1-2.1.4-2mdk.i586.rpm /mnt/cdrom/media/main/postfix-2.1.4-2mdk.i586.rpm Preparing... ################################################## 1:libpostfix1 ################################################## 2:postfix ################################################## sendmail.postfix: warning: My hostname localhost is not a fully qualified name - set myhostname or mydomain in /etc/postfix/main.cf postalias: warning: My hostname localhost is not a fully qualified name - set myhostname or mydomain in /etc/postfix/main.cf Shutting down kernel logger: [ OK ] Shutting down system logger: [ OK ] Starting system logger: /etc/init.d/syslog: line 100: 5838 Terminated $* [FAILED] Starting kernel logger: [ OK ] [root@localhost root]# do i need to worry? currently reading the link you sent.. also i don want to read mail at my desktop. i am happy reading mails at yahoo.. but i just want the ability to send mail's thru one of my yahoo acounts! regards, rohit. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rohitsz Posted June 23, 2005 Author Report Share Posted June 23, 2005 But why dont you use gmail account for Pop mail??? its a free account..... If you have have an invitation, then tell me I can give you free invitation. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> i have gmail account.. but this link made me start thinking otherwise ! http://www.google-watch.org never heard such thing against yahoo.. so can trust it much more than google as of now! regards, rohit. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ianw1974 Posted June 23, 2005 Report Share Posted June 23, 2005 You can send from specific email accounts, using an alternative SMTP server, and send as if you're using your Yahoo account. You will have an SMTP server provided by your ISP. You will also have a username and password to utilise this SMTP server. All you need to do is configure an email account which will use the smtp server, but configure your email address so it is whatever@yahoo.com or whatever@yahoo.co.uk or whichever country specific Yahoo email address you have. However, all your emails will be delivered to your Yahoo account, and you wouldn't be able to receive them over Yahoo POP unless you have a paid account with them like Yahoo Plus or whatever it's called. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ramfree17 Posted June 23, 2005 Report Share Posted June 23, 2005 is there a similar y!pops software in linux? i use that to download my files from yahoo. why dont i just use gmail's pop3? because the company is blocking all pop3 traffic. i am downloading my yahoo mails via http. ciao! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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