kmail doesn't work after new update.

[Derek Broughton]

John L Vifian wrote:

> On Sunday 16 August 2009 10:37:51 am David McGlone wrote:
>> Not trying to sound mean here but, Steven has made the comment
>> he has set up the live CD 50 million times, to send and receive
>> mail. What makes this situation any different?
> 
> Well you would think that he would use the same smtp server on his live CD
> setup as he uses on his installed version so it shouldn't make any
> difference. Since he sent his last message through a yahoo smtp server it
> would seem the server settings are valid, and the settings on his computer
> shouldn't have changed in an update which he claims to have done.
> 
> Googling a bit it would appear that the server he shows is correct, and in
> my small amount of testing this is not the error you get with an incorrect
> authentication method, port or encryption, so to me it seems likely to be
> a
> temporary server problem.  Course I could be wrong, or some other useful
> detail was left out of his email.

Possibly all of the above :-)  But I balk when seeing a line like:

>> Received: from unknown (HELO yeshua.localnet) (stevenvollom at 76.250.189.87 
with

That sure looks to me like Steven is using a local smtp, which is operating 
in smarthost mode (and giving an improper HELO, at that - really, your 
system should identify with a genuine FQDN, and not *.localnet) forwarding 
to yahoo.
-- 
derek