errors

[John R. Sowden]

On 02/24/2014 04:06 PM, William Scott Lockwood III wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 24, 2014 at 6:00 PM, John R. Sowden
> <jsowden at americansentry.net> wrote:
>> This is a stand alone machine that reads and sends its email via
>> thunderbird.  It checks the mail every 30 minutes per my TB setup. The email
>> is at a remote email server.  I have severl remote email sites.  Most are
>> pop3, one is imap that I am trying to change to pop3.  Not sure why it is
>> imap.  I do not save any email on remote servers.
>
> And the errors you are seeing relate to an email _server_, not a
> client. Something on your machine is trying to send out email. In all
> likelihood, it's something trying to reach your email address, or
> username - which it never will. You can safely ignore the error.
>
> --
> W. Scott Lockwood III
> "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty:  soap, ballot,
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>
I am a little concerned that the errors are (a) 1 every few seconds, and 
(b) seem to be coming from my computer, as they are fails of the smpt 
protocol, which I think means that something in my system is trying to 
send an email.  I am still getting lots of other errors (pages and pages 
on bootup).  I think they are related to my video, which is an on-board 
video (a nothing special compaq).

john