Establishing SMTP connection - Mandrake 9.0

[Guest Proselytus Linux]

Hi, all. I'm new to this board (and quite pleased to locate it.)

 

After a difficult install, I managed to get everything suitably running except smtp email delivery. I get "unrecognized transport protocol, could not send message" from KMail. I believe I have all the correct info, but maybe my formatting for either the "Name" or "Host" for the Outgoing Account in set-up is incorrectly (no examples in the manual).

 

Would anyone be kind enough to offer an example of these two fields? Any other related issues that I might be missing? In advance, tremendous thanks for any guidance!

 

Proselytus Linux

[fuzzylizard]

So you are trying to send email from Kmail and it is telling you something is wrong?

 

usually smtp server are set up like this: smtp.isp.com

or : mail.isp.com

 

or some variation thereof.

 

Can you give us more info as to what is going wrong and also what kind of ISP you are using?

[Guest Proselytus Linux]

I have the inbound email receiving from an internet pop3 email site. I attempted to send the outbound email through my ISP, but failed to obtain a connection.

 

Through my previously existing WinXP set-up email, I have a website and both pop3 and smtp. I am presently attempting to send the outbound SMTP emails over the same SMTP as my existing connection with WinXP. (The POP3 for the newer Linux PC, web-based email connection does not offer outbound SMTP.)

 

With the WinXP smtp (Yahoo) I receive recognition of the server from the Mandrake software, not so with my ISP. So I thought that perhaps it was just my "format" of the SMTP names. However, they appear correct: i.e. "smtp.website.com" with authotization for "email@website.com" and "password". Or?

 

BTW, thanks for the reply.

 

Proselytus Linux