On Thursday 31 October 2002 13:53, you wrote:
> Hey Everyone,
>
> I've been silent for a while, since SMTP doesn't work for me right now
> under Verizon's network. That is, when I send mail via SMTP (which I had
> been doing before under Earthlink's DSL), it seems to drop off into
> oblivion. It worked before under earthlink...I still am using my earthlink
> account for sending and receiving mail...I guess verizon doesn't want to
> pass mail through its network bound for earthlink and the to the rest of
> the net? Can anyone shed some light on this?
Interesting. I have had a 50% downtime with my dsl service from Verizon since
yesterday. They seem to be having big network problems and are not admitting
to it.
>
> The way I'm currently sending mail is through the web interface that
> earthlink offers. It will do until I can figure out a real way to send
> mail...
I suggest sending it via ssl from a different port.
>
> BTW, I also got my networking to work for normal users. PPPoE apparently
> takes resolv.conf and turns it into a symlink to /etc/ppp/resolv.conf. The
> ppp directory didn't have permissions set up for normal users to see
> resolv.conf...so, I just replaced the symlink in /etc with the real
> thing...works just fine now!
>
> Russell
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