[ILUG] Followup 3: Naive ADSL/WiFi questions [ cannot send e-mail ]

[Brian Foster]

 finally found a use for my gmail account ...
 (and thank whatevers for Firefox's mozex plugin!)

 whee!  I've got ADSL access to the internet now,
 guess I'm no longer in the 19th ;-) century!
 everything seems to be working fine, with one
 Highly Annoying exception:  sending e-mail.

 the instructions say to use  smtp.te-dns.net
 as the SMTP server (and do not mention anything
 about authentication).   my first attempt was to
 for my local SMTP server (postfix) to relay (same
 as I was doing over the 56K dialout straw), but
 that is refused (from the log):

     550 relay not permitted (in reply to RCPT TO command)

 hum ...

 Ok, before messing about with local SMTP any more,
 I decided to configure Kmail to send directly to
 that server rather than via my local server (i.e.,
 mimic the ISP's instructions, which are just for
 M$ Windross Outofluck).  that's still no good,
 it's refused in the same(?) way (from the pop-up
 Kmail error window):

    Sending failed:
    Message sending failed since the following recipients
    were rejected by the server:  xxx at yyy
    (The server responded: "relay not permitted")

 hum! ....

 trying with a guess at authentication results in
 a slightly different but perhaps expected error:

    Sending failed:
    Your SMTP server doesn't support authentication.
    The server responded: "AUTH command used when not advertised"

 arrggghhhh!!!!!  now what?
 (the firewall was up during all the above tests, but
 I rather doubt that has anything to do the problem.)

 I'm afraid e-mail/SMTP is a complete mystery to me.
 any ideas?  what should try?  test?

 I haven't yet called support, mostly since it's only
 for M$ Windross, so things could get a bit confused.

cheers!
	-blf-
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