The Silent Woman
Jim Kuzdrall
gnhlug at intrel.com
Wed Apr 2 10:29:56 EDT 2008
My wife's computer can receive email, but it can't send it. Having
a woman who could listen but not speak seemed to have some advantages
at first. Don't try it. Very, very bad idea.
I reinstalled SuSE 9.3 after replacing the hard drive. The install
included a "home" level firewall using YaST2. Everything worked fine
until I rebooted the machine.
Suspecting the firewall, I removed it.
That not working, I removed the SuSE security packages, rebooted,
reinstalled them, rebooted, thinking the fresh config files might help.
No change.
I matched all the setting to those of have another computer I have
(which is sending this email). No help.
* * * * * * *
KPPP dials and connects normally. Konqueror browses the web
normally. Kmail downloads POP mail normally. But when trying to send
anything, I get:
"Sending failed: Authorization failed, An error occurred during
authentication: SASL(-4): no mechanism available; No worthy mechs
found; authentication not supported."
I configured the email on Mozilla and got the same message, so it
is beyond Kmail. What could it be? I hate to think of reinstalling
all of SuSE 9.3, home directory, etc.
Running: SuSE 9.3 on i686 machine
KDE 3.4.0 level b
Linux 2.6.11.4-21.17-default
all available updates installed
The processes running (ps -e) while the error message is on the screen
are:
acpid, aio/0, artsd, bash, bash, cardmgr, cpuspeed, cron, cupsd,
dbus-daemon-1, dcopserver, events/0, gpg-agent, hald, hwscand, init,
kaccess, kacpid, kalarmd, kblockd/0, kded, kdeinit, kdesktop, kdm, kdm,
khelper, khpsbpkt, khubd, kicker, kio_file, kio_smtp, kjournald,
klauncher, klogd, kmail, kmix, knotes, knotify, konqueror, kppp,
kppp, kseriod, ksmserver, ksoftirqd/0, kswapd0, kthread, kwin,
kwrapper, lockd, login, mingetty, nfsd, nscd, pccardd, pdflush,
portmap, powersaved, pppd, ps, resmgrd, rpciod/0, rpc.mountd,
smpppd, snmpd, sshd, startkde, syslog-ng, udevd, X
Can somebody help me make peace with my wife?
Desperate
Jim Kuzdrall
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