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

Adam Tauno Williams awilliam at whitemice.org
Sat Feb 11 09:41:39 EST 2006


> 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.

The password request is coming from your ISPs SMTP server.  So try
entering the password you use to connect to your ISP.




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