[wplug] Evolution: send with eth but not ppp

[Jonathan Billings]

On Saturday, April 5, 2003, at 10:40  AM, Scott F Kiesling wrote:


2. Is there any way to fix this, besides trying upgrading? (or just using
pine on the pitt server from home, as I am doing now?)

Hope you all are having a nice GUM! I have papers to grade...


I took a look at smtp.pitt.edu, to check what kind of authentication 
that's allowed.

% telnet smtp.pitt.edu 25
Trying 136.142.185.161...
Connected to mb1i1.ns.pitt.edu.
Escape character is '^]'.
220 mb1i0.ns.pitt.edu -- Server ESMTP (PMDF V5.2-32 #41462)
ehlo quark.wv.cs.cmu.edu
250-mb1i0.ns.pitt.edu
250-8BITMIME
250-PIPELINING
250-DSN
250-ENHANCEDSTATUSCODES
250-EXPN
250-HELP
250-SAML
250-SEND
250-SOML
250-TURN
250-XADR
250-XSTA
250-ETRN
250-XGEN
250-RELAY
250-AUTH KERBEROS_V4
250 SIZE 51200000


According to RFC 2554 (http://www.rfc.net/rfc2554.html), the server can 
reply with an AUTH with the methods of authentication that the server is 
capable of.  As you can see, the listed type is "KERBEROS_V4".  I know 
that evolution doesn't support kerberos authentication, so you aren't 
going to be able to authenticate.

This means that you are not going to be able to send mail through the pitt 
smtp server from your home, unless you switch to a different client that 
can use kerberos, and you have kerberos set up correctly on your laptop.

I suggest that you use your ISP's smtp servers to send mail when you are 
at home.

Jonathan