Re: Can't send email

Mark Livingstone <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.mail.mahogany.user
Organization dis
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hi Shoshannah,

On Wed, 18 May 2005 04:06:41 +0300 Shoshannah Forbes
<[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi.
> Strange problem here-

Not at all. I had the exact same one a few day ago when I setup my Notebook
with XP SP2.

> I am using Mahogany 0.66.0 on WinXP SP2. It is set up to pull email
> from an imap server, and send email using a SMTP server that does not
> use authentication.
> 
> When I set it up, the test message the application sent by itself when
> thrugh fine. However, when I attempt to send email, clicking on the
> "send" button in the compose window does nothing: the button gets
> pressed, and then returnes to normal. The activity log (whith extedned
> logging turned on), reports nothing, as if I never clicked on the send
> button. Same thing happens when I use the menu command to send the
> email.

Go to Folder -> Properties -> Network and turn off the top option "Use
local mail transfer agent". There is about a 99.9% chance that if you are
using Windows, you do not want to use Sendmail ;-)

Actually Vadim, would it be worth changing the default of that option?

Cheers,

MarkL



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