netbsd-help: RE: smtp error

Subject: RE: smtp error
To: None <netbsd-help@netbsd.org>
From: None <oinkfreebiker@att.net>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 09/18/2001 10:19:23
I figured out what causes this...

Sending failed:
a SMTP error occured.
Command: <body>
Response: network error
Return code: 0

The following transport protocol was used:
smtp://mailhost.worldnet.att.net:25

...but not how to fix it. In fact, it has gotten worse. 
It has nothing to do with the ThinkPad or the PCMCIA 
modem. It is clearly a bug in the NetBSD port of 
KDE2...and also KDE1.

I know because now I have seen it three times. And three 
times it has majorly hampored my use of NetBSD. I saw it 
on the ThinkPad in NetBSD 1.5 and KDE 1.1.2. I saw it 
next on the ThinkPad in NetBSD 1.5.1 and KDE2. And now I 
see it on my Intel D815EEA2 and KDE2 using an external 
USRobotics modem on tty00.

It happens when I first "insert file" written by "K 
Advanced Editor", or if I cut-paste from anywher on the 
desktop into the KMail composer.

I get the error not only on the message I had tried to 
cut-paste/insert into, but on all other new messages I 
might thereafter try to compose.

So, unless I figure this out, KMail on KDE is totally 
trashed short of a re-install.

I figure this must surely be a broken element of NetBSD's 
package of KDE since there is no listing of it in the 
MARC archive of many, many mailing lists. No listing 
except for my own. Nobody in Linux-land would put up with 
anything this broken, I don't think. KDE would certainly 
have a very bad rep if nobody could email a doc composed 
with its own editor.

I want to know, how many other parts of the KDE2 package 
on NetBSD are broken? Is Gnome also broken? 
Approximately, how many such packages are broken? Why 
does not the package system list the "level of 
brokenness" for the package. It is at least as important 
as the "vulnerability". It is more so, inasmuch as my 
computer runs the risk of being smashed into itty bitty 
pieces whenever I spend a whole week of my time to 
install a package, configure it, learn to use it...and 
then find that my effort may have been totally wasted.

Unhappily,

Gan Starling

PS -- the KDE2 archiver also does not work. It reports 
"cannot start subprocess".

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