March 2002 - WLUG - wlug.mailman3.com

Re: [Wlug] Charter and MSN....

by Charles R. Anderson

Please use plain text, not HTML. Thank you.

March 20, 2002

Re: [Wlug] Charter and MSN....

by Thomas Carey

March 20, 2002

Re: [Wlug] Outbound email broken -- SOLVED

by Skip Gaede

On Tuesday 19 March 2002 06:40 pm, you wrote: > On Tuesday 19 March 2002 06:12 pm, you wrote: > > At 03/19/2002 04:59 PM (Tuesday), sgaede(a)attbi.com wrote: > > >Folks, > > > > > >I have an account on AT&T Broadband, and for some reason, > > >my outbound email seems to be broken. I can send email > > >from KDEMail to myself and I get the mail back promptly, > > >but any email sent to a mailing list seems to go into a > > >black hole. Would you believe I mistyped my email address in setup? I had sgaede(a)attbi.comt The extra "t" was the culprit... Sigh...

March 20, 2002

Re: [Wlug] Outbound email broken

by Skip Gaede

On Tuesday 19 March 2002 06:12 pm, you wrote: > At 03/19/2002 04:59 PM (Tuesday), sgaede(a)attbi.com wrote: > >Folks, > > > >I have an account on AT&T Broadband, and for some reason, > >my outbound email seems to be broken. I can send email > >from KDEMail to myself and I get the mail back promptly, > >but any email sent to a mailing list seems to go into a > >black hole. > > Do the mailing lists have your new email address or are you still > subscribed via mediaone.net? Many will not accept mail from unsubscribed > addresses. > They have my new address! (Sorry, should have said that...)

March 19, 2002

Re: [Wlug] Outbound email broken

by Doug Chamberlin

At 03/19/2002 04:59 PM (Tuesday), sgaede(a)attbi.com wrote: >Folks, > >I have an account on AT&T Broadband, and for some reason, >my outbound email seems to be broken. I can send email >from KDEMail to myself and I get the mail back promptly, >but any email sent to a mailing list seems to go into a >black hole. Do the mailing lists have your new email address or are you still subscribed via mediaone.net? Many will not accept mail from unsubscribed addresses.

March 19, 2002

Re: [Wlug] Outbound email broken

by Chuck Homic

On Tue, Mar 19, 2002 at 09:59:40PM +0000, sgaede(a)attbi.com wrote: > I have an account on AT&T Broadband, and for some reason, > my outbound email seems to be broken. I can send email > from KDEMail to myself and I get the mail back promptly, > but any email sent to a mailing list seems to go into a > black hole. Is your SMTP server an AT&T one, or are you trying to use SMTP service from another site? Most sane sysadmins will not allow their SMTP server to relay mail off-site (because spammers abuse this lack of security), but will accept mail for local users. For this reason, you have to use your ISP's SMTP server. (Or an open relay, I suppose.) I use this configuration when I access work email from my RoadRunner connection. I am able to get mail from my work POP/IMAP server, but to send, I have to use my local RoadRunner SMTP server. (Which is often broken, BTW!) > Can anyone suggest anything I can do to make sure the > mail makes it to the other end? Is getting a confirmation > receipt the only choice? Well, this rarely works, so it's always a bad choice, I think. ;) The best way is to make sure your SMTP is properly configured, and that delivery errors can be locally delivered back to you. (If that made no sense, hopefully someone else can explain it better? ;) ) -Chuck

March 19, 2002

Outbound email broken

by sgaede＠attbi.com

Folks, I have an account on AT&T Broadband, and for some reason, my outbound email seems to be broken. I can send email from KDEMail to myself and I get the mail back promptly, but any email sent to a mailing list seems to go into a black hole. I'm sending this from the web-based client at ATTBI.com, so I'm pretty sure this one's going to make it. Can anyone suggest anything I can do to make sure the mail makes it to the other end? Is getting a confirmation receipt the only choice? Thanks, Skip P.S. Additional info: I'm running Mandrake 8.1, with InteractiveBastille for setting up the firewall. I have a private LAN behind the firewall, so it's probably because I didn't answer one of the questions correctly while setting up the firewall. Do I need to enable inbound SMTP connections? I don't think so. (I have a registered IP name, but not a static IP address.)

March 19, 2002

Re: [Wlug] Charter and MSN....

by Wesley Allen

It was all done via e-mail; so call up or access your e-mail account that you have with them... Someone wrote that the real reason that I am upset is that my "account" is now being used to inflate .net's user stats. That hit the nail on the head; what right do they have to use my account to puff up their numbers. I don't use their cruddy services! Wes John Stoffel wrote: >I haven't seen anything from Charter on this via snail mail myself, >and I don't even use their email servers either, so maybe I'm signed >up and not realizing it. > >So how do we check easily? > >John >_______________________________________________ >Wlug mailing list >Wlug(a)mail.wlug.org >http://mail.wlug.org/mailman/listinfo/wlug >

March 19, 2002

RE: [Wlug] RE: [WPILA-Discuss] Gentoo Linux Distro

by Chuck Haines

Did you say this because you are a redhat fan or because you were looking for a distro that did this? On Tue, 2002-03-19 at 10:55, Keller, Tim wrote: > I think it would be cool if redhat during the install had an option for > "optimized for your architecture". In choosing this option, It would run > either run a test suite and find the best settings for your machine, or it > would have a bunch of custom configs to choose from like > "586/586MMX/Athlon/686/etc". It would then spend about a day hand compiling > every package for your box and then installing it. > > Yeah it would be hilariously slow, but you'd end up with a really optimized > box. The only danger I could see would be if you find that certain > optimizations corrupted things (like gcc/glibc) etc. > > On a side note, you could have an optimize script that ran post install that > you'd just say something like "optimize --all --no=kernel --mode=586MMX > ftp://jungle.unc.edu/blah/blah/redhat" or /mnt/cdrom and it would go off, > grab the SRPMS and systematically make your machine fully 586MMX optimized, > skipping the kernel. Though I'm thinking you'd probably want some order to > the way it did it. I would think that you'd want to upgrade gcc and glibc > first, since they'll speed things up. > > Just ideas... > > Tim. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Frank Sweetser [mailto:fs@WPI.EDU] > Sent: Monday, March 18, 2002 18:54 PM > To: wlug(a)mail.wlug.org > Subject: Re: [Wlug] RE: [WPILA-Discuss] Gentoo Linux Distro > > > On Mon, Mar 18, 2002 at 05:35:26PM -0500, Josh Huber wrote: > > Frank Sweetser <fs(a)WPI.EDU> writes: > > > > > Someone please tell me if I'm wrong, because that seems like a > > > pretty hackish way to do things. > > > > Yeah, you're wrong. Please read what I posted, especially: > > > > "By default, after installing this package, the compilers will behave > > normally. However, if the environment variable DEBIAN_BUILDARCH=pentium > > is set, they will enter pentium optimized compile mode." > > Okay, that's not nearly so bad. I still prefer the rpm way, but that's > a reasonable solution as well =) > > -- > Frank Sweetser fs at wpi.edu, fs at suave.net | $ x 18 > Full-time WPI Network Tech, Part time Linux/Perl guy | > When I have a kid, I want to buy one of those strollers for twins. > Then put the kid in and run around, looking frantic. -- Stephen Wright > _______________________________________________ > Wlug mailing list > Wlug(a)mail.wlug.org > http://mail.wlug.org/mailman/listinfo/wlug > _______________________________________________ > Wlug mailing list > Wlug(a)mail.wlug.org > http://mail.wlug.org/mailman/listinfo/wlug -- --------------------------------------------- | Chuck Haines | AIM: CyberGrex | | GDC Webmaster | ICQ: 3707881 | | WPI Class of 2005 | MSN: CyberGrex | | chaines(a)wpi.edu | Yahoo: CyberGrex_27 | ---------------------------------------------

March 19, 2002

Re: [Wlug] Charter and MSN....

by John Stoffel

I haven't seen anything from Charter on this via snail mail myself, and I don't even use their email servers either, so maybe I'm signed up and not realizing it. So how do we check easily? John

March 19, 2002