[Novices] Can't send on Suse 10.0 / Evolution

Eric Beversluis econophil at charter.net
Fri Feb 10 19:40:40 EST 2006


I think that when you set up an email account, there's an option (under
"Sending Mail" in Evolution) for whether smtp server requires
authentication. This should be unchecked. In Evolution: Tools
->Settings->click appropriate acct ->edit->Sending Mail tab.

EB

On Fri, 2006-02-10 at 14:26 -0800, Brock Inglehart wrote:
> Have had this problem before.  Don't know how it got fixed the first
> time.  I can receive but
> when I send or forward an email, I get a dialog box with; 
> 
> Please enter the SMTP password for brocki1 on host
> smtp.sbcglobal.yahoo.com.
> 
>   When I enter the only password used anywhere on my computer, I get;
> 
> Unable to authenticate to SMTP server.
> AUTH command failed: Broken pipe.  
> 
> And the next line is the same as the original request.  I used the
> Evolution wizard to set up email and had copies of my previous setup
> to duplicate.
> 
> Sending this from webmail.   Help.
> 
> 
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