[wplug] Evolution: send with eth but not ppp

John john at strangeness.org
Sat Apr 5 15:39:42 EST 2003


You could just use local sendmail/postfix to deliver the mail over dialup..

-----Original Message-----
From: wplug-admin at wplug.org [mailto:wplug-admin at wplug.org] On Behalf Of
Jonathan Billings
Sent: Saturday, April 05, 2003 12:50 PM
To: wplug at wplug.org
Subject: Re: [wplug] Evolution: send with eth but not ppp



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


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