Very well said :-) Follow Craig's logic and you will
most likely solve your problem.


On Wed, Nov 07, 2001 at 05:14:50AM -0700, Craig White wrote:
> -----
> since you can ping -c 4 mail.mindspring.com - you know this much...
>  - dns resolves mail.mindspring.com to an acutal ip address
>  - your computer can reach this ip adress
> 
> Since you can telnet mail.mindspring.com 25 (or smtp) you know this
> much...
>  - you can create a session on port 25 to mail.mindspring.com
>  - there are no firewalls or blocks on port 25 between your computer and
> mail.mindspring.com
>  - mail clients can use mail.mindspring.com to send email
> 
> Thus the only conclusion is...
>  - your mail client is either misconfigured or severely broken.
> 
> Make sure that your mail client:
>  - uses the same name (was it mail.mindspring.com?) for outgoing mail
> (smtp)
>  - doesn't use ssl for outgoing connections (that would change the port
> from 25)
>  - doesn't use any method of authentication for smtp (if authentication
> is required - and I don't remember earthlink setting up smtp
> authentication, let it ask for it and use your email account as your
> authentication is requested).
>  - try another email client when all else fails
> 
> lastly, the file that you enclosed 'resolv.conf' demonstrates that kppp
> is indeed getting the dns settings from dialup properly.
> 
> Craig
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