[PLUG] Dumb DNS Question?

Eli Stair eli.stair at gmail.com
Wed Mar 1 17:05:39 UTC 2006


Your PSU account likely uses a different host for SMTP than it does
for POP3/IMAP.

/eli

On 3/1/06, John Jordan <johnxj at comcast.net> wrote:
> OK, I think it's a DNS problem, but maybe it's something else. In
> any event, I can't figure out the answer.
>
> On my Ubuntu-64 Breezy laptop I use Sylpheed for e-mail. I have it
> set to leave e-mail on the servers because I want to use my
> desktop at home as the place to archive messages. It happily
> checks the servers for my three e-mail accounts whenever I tell it
> to. I can also send e-mail just fine -- except when I am at PSU.
> That's the problem that I can't figure out. Why should it send and
> receive just fine at home, but at PSU it can only receive?
> Everything else works just fine at PSU -- Firefox, etc. When I try to
> send an e-mail the little dialog box just sits there and says
> "connecting to <servername>," but it never connects. It would sit
> there for half an hour if I let it. The program is not hung -- I can tell it
> to stop trying and just tell it to "send later." That puts the e-mails in
> its queue. When I get home I just click on "send all" and it
> promptly sends the messages that it couldn't send from PSU. And
> this happens exactly the same with all three accounts.
>
> I can use Firefox to log into my Comcast account and send the e-
> mail with the browser. Or I can send an e-mail from my pdx.edu
> account, also with Firefox. It just seems strange that Sylpheed
> can't send, when everything else has no problem going out. Does
> pub.net discriminate against Sylpheed? And since Sylpheed can
> send without any problem from home, obviously I must have the
> account and passwords set right.
>
> This is probably one of those dumb things that will make me slap
> myself on the forehead as soon as I figure it out. But right now it
> makes no sense at all. Does anyone have any idea why this is
> happening?
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