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Re: Netscape, POP3, and Linux
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jan Carlson)
Wed Nov 25 18:22:49 1998
Date: Wed, 25 Nov 1998 18:20:49 -0500
From: Jan Carlson <janc@iname.com>
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"Conner, Tom" wrote:
> I have both at my home and my university office a Dell pentium with both
> WIN95 and RH 5.2 installed. My university department is networked using an
> NT server and mail service is microsoft exchange. At my office I can use
> exchange to directly access my mail if WIN95 is running or if Linux is
> running I use Netscape 4.07 in POP3 mode. At home I can use dial-up
> networking and exchange if I have WIN95 running or Netscape 4.07 in POP3
> mode with a PPP connection to the university and the department NT server.
> I can also, if I choose, use Netscape 4.5 on my office computer in POP3 mode
> while running WIN95. Here is the problem:
>
> With exchange/WIN95 in the office, Netscape/POP3/WIN95 in the office, and
> exchange/dial-up/WIN95 at home I can send and receive an e-mail to/from
> anyone, including the several listservs I belong to. However, with
> Netscape/POP3/Linux I apparently cannot get a posting through to any of the
> listservs, including this one. The mail is sent and nothing more happens.
> The posting is never posted, I get no error message. Obviously there is
> something either about Netscape for Linux or the Netscape/Linux combination
> that is the problem. Has anyone else had this problem? Any ideas for
> solutions?
Netscape 4.5 for Linux works fine for me with several list servers.
I have Netscape talk directly to my ISP, not Exchange.
If email works on W95 Netscape 4.5, it can do the same
on Linux Netscape 4.5. You just have to fix the settings
on the two Netscapes to be the same,
and possibly in your Linux networking to use the same
networking setup as w95 uses on that machine.
Can your Linux Netscape send or receive any
mail at all to and from addresses out there on
the Internet? Is it failing only on list servers?
If everything works except the list servers, it could
be that something in your Exchange system thinks
the mailing list messages are spam. In particular,
one of the Redhat subscription confirmation messages
comes with a "Precedence: junk" header which gets
blocked by some mail systems as spam.
--
Jan Carlson
janc@iname.com Scarborough, Ontario, Canada
Mailed with Netscape 4.5 on Red Hat Linux 5.2
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