[ale] Re: Evolution Issue

[Dow Hurst]

Uncle Flip,
Are you blocking outgoing SMTP connections locally on your Linux box?  
Try to "telnet mail.bellsouth.net 25" in a shell on your Linux box and 
see if you get a response.  You can "Cntrl-D" out of that.  If you 
connect properly that way, then you will know you have an Evolution 
config problem.  Obviously you can connect to the POP3 server at 
mindspring thru bellsouth's network.  You are exposing your mindspring 
password this way, but no matter, you need your mail.  I haven't used 
Evolution but am trying to help with eliminating points of failure 
outside of Evolution.  Your Windows based machines by default don't have 
a firewall in place and have the policy of anything is possible.  Your 
Linux box may be installed automatically as very secure with as few 
things possible available.  That is my first thought on the problem.  
The Linux box can be more relaxed on security settings since you can 
have a firewall on your router to protect the entire home network.  To 
fix the problem, if it is what I think, then you will need to drop your 
rules on the Linux firewall.  It will be iptables most likely for RH8 so 
as root:

iptables -P INPUT ACCEPT
iptables -P OUTPUT ACCEPT
iptables -P FORWARD ACCEPT
iptables -F

which should leave you with an unfiltered link.  (Don't do this unless 
you have a firewall on your router configured or your wide open.)
Good luck,
Dow


Uncle Flip wrote:

>>Check the "Server requires Authentication" box and see if you need to  use
>>    
>>
>a password to send from the Mindspring account.
>
>No, that doesn't appear to enter into it.  Never have needed a password for
>it- and as I say, the exact same settings work perfectly well under a
>different OS.  Not sure why Linux/Evolution would handle it differently.  I
>rather like working on the Linux box, but this is frustrating, knowing that
>I can't do it if there's the odd chance I may have to send an e-mail.  :(
>
>  
>
>>Bellsouth has in the past required email be sent through them if you use
>>    
>>
>their connection. Ditto for Earthlink.
>
>Right.  That's why I have the outgoing server set to mail.bellsouth.net when
>I'm at home behind the router, and mail.mindspring.com when on the road with
>the laptop.  The arrangement works just fine everywhere *except* the Linux
>box.
>
>I guess the up side here is that I'm VERY new to Linux, and have only found
>one or two things that have given me trouble.... :)
>
>Be well
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