KMail sending problem

Trainee

Saturday, January 10th 2004, 10:08am

Hello,

I am running SuSE Linux 8.2 and have an ADSL connection. I am trying to use KMail. It will recieve messages fine but I cannot send any emails. I get the following error message when I try to do this -

The server did not accept the sender address.
The server responded: "Bad address syntax "

I have tried different settings but to no avail. I assume I have set my identity in the sending settings wrongly somehow. Anyone any ideas?

In Configure - Network - Sending I have put -

Name - D Smith
Host - smtp.dsl.pipex.com
Port - 25
Precommand - left blank

Server authentication
Login - my Pipex user ID
Password - my Pipex user login password

Donald

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cmbofh

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Saturday, January 10th 2004, 10:45am

Re: KMail sending problem

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Original von Donald

I get the following error message when I try to do this -

The server did not accept the sender address.
The server responded: "Bad address syntax "

If I read this correctly then the mail server doesn't seem to accept *your* email address, the one that appears as sender. It claims it's malformed.

- What does KMail display in the "From" line when you compose an email?

- Check the settings under "Identity".

edit: just a typo

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cmbofh

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Saturday, January 10th 2004, 10:48am

Re: KMail sending problem

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Original von Donald

I have tried different settings but to no avail. I assume I have set my identity in the sending settings wrongly somehow. Anyone any ideas?

In Configure - Network - Sending I have put -
...

The interesting setting is under
Configure - Identity

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jim0647

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Location: Bristol, UK

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Saturday, January 10th 2004, 4:07pm

You only need the smtp address. Login/Password are usually only required for collecting your mail
Jim

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sytemaddict

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Saturday, January 10th 2004, 4:53pm

I'm also unable to send messages - I'm getting 'The Server did not accept the sender address. The server responded "5.5.4 Invalid Address".

What stumps me is that I *can* send mail with Pine and Mozilla Thunderbird. And I do have my correct e-mail address configured under Identity.

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cmbofh

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Saturday, January 10th 2004, 5:26pm

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Original von sytemaddict

What stumps me is that I *can* send mail with Pine and Mozilla Thunderbird. And I do have my correct e-mail address configured under Identity.

- And it's really only the email address and nothing else
in the From field when you compose the email?
- Is it *exactly* the same address as in Pine and Mozilla Thunderbird?

If sending the email fails then it stays in the outbox.
If you're willing to disclose some details (think about privacy...)
you could do the following:
- Compose a short test email and hit send -> you get an error
- Go to the outbox
- Select the email
- Hit "v" -> the message source appears
- Post the message source code here

If you don't want to post it to the world
you could also send it to me via this board's message system...

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Donald

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Saturday, January 10th 2004, 7:13pm

Thanks cmbofh - problem solved. I'm very grateful.

Donald

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systemaddict

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Sunday, January 11th 2004, 6:41am

Thanks cm, here's a test sent with KMail:

From: deor@foo.co.uk
Reply-To: deor@foo.co.uk
To: deor@bar.co.uk
Subject: Test from KMail 20040111 0708
Date: Sun, 11 Jan 2004 07:08:34 +0000
User-Agent: KMail/1.5.1
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain;
charset="us-ascii"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Content-Disposition: inline
Message-Id: <200401110708.35802.deor@foo.co.uk>
Status: RO
X-Status: Q
X-KMail-EncryptionState: N
X-KMail-SignatureState: N

Hello World

This is a message sent with Thunderbird which arrived as expected:

From - Thu Jan 01 18:28:22 2004
X-Mozilla-Status: 0001
X-Mozilla-Status2: 00800000
Message-ID: <3FF466C5.1080703@foo.co.uk>
Date: Thu, 01 Jan 2004 18:28:21 +0000
From: System Addict <deor@foo.co.uk>
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-us; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031014 Thunderbird/0.3
X-Accept-Language: en-us, en
MIME-Version: 1.0
To: deor@bar.co.uk
Subject: Test message from Thunderbird 2004101 18:28
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit

The thing which really foxes me, if Identity is the key, is that the message received from Pine on my Windows box showed the sender as System Addict <System@milo.milo.myflat (ie as me at the hostname and bogus domain name of my LAN), which suggests that my ISP's SMTP server isn't particular about the sender's address.

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cmbofh

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Sunday, January 11th 2004, 7:54am

Quoted

Original von systemaddict

Thanks cm, here's a test sent with KMail:

...

Unfortunately I cannot find anything wrong with KMail's headers.
But then again, I'm only a KMail user.

Quoted

Original von systemaddict

The thing which really foxes me, if Identity is the key, is that the message received from Pine on my Windows box showed the sender as System Addict <System@milo.milo.myflat (ie as me at the hostname and bogus domain name of my LAN), which suggests that my ISP's SMTP server isn't particular about the sender's address.

Yes, that's strange. It seems Donald's problem was related to the sender address under "Identity", but yours? Not sure.

Maybe if you deleted the identity entry and recreated it?
There might be something illegal but invisible to it.
Just gripping for straws here ;-)

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