From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 27CD413888F for ; Tue, 27 Oct 2015 14:22:06 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 6B7B521C02C; Tue, 27 Oct 2015 14:22:00 +0000 (UTC) Received: from gw2.antarean.org (gw2.antarean.org [141.105.125.208]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3C1E221C006 for ; Tue, 27 Oct 2015 14:21:59 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by gw2.antarean.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3F516125E7A for ; Tue, 27 Oct 2015 14:20:38 +0000 () X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at antarean.org Received: from gw2.antarean.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (gw2.antarean.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id Yy4rF65JlNxy for ; Tue, 27 Oct 2015 14:20:34 +0000 (%Z) Received: from data.antarean.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by gw2.antarean.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 11017121F35 for ; Tue, 27 Oct 2015 14:20:34 +0000 () Received: from andromeda.localnet (unknown [10.20.13.200]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by data.antarean.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 26E4F4C for ; Tue, 27 Oct 2015 15:19:43 +0100 (CET) From: "J. Roeleveld" To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] xsane - emial "connection failed" Date: Tue, 27 Oct 2015 15:21:53 +0100 Message-ID: <3529517.ojcKBj8evY@andromeda> User-Agent: KMail/4.14.8 (Linux/4.0.5-gentoo; KDE/4.14.8; x86_64; ; ) In-Reply-To: <56284F3C.3040509@sys-concept.com> References: <56284F3C.3040509@sys-concept.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-Archives-Salt: e9274022-3fb0-46f9-bccc-7f72b6dbbb9d X-Archives-Hash: a5cd26813881e89b0c41d8fc4f18dff6 On Wednesday, October 21, 2015 08:51:40 PM thelma@sys-concept.com wrote: > I'm trying to use/setup xsane to email simple document (pdf file) > > I've set all the parameters in xsane - preference - setup: email > correct but I still get an error: > SMTP connection failed > > I'm using port 25 on mail.shaw.ca > so there is no authentication and the mail should be accepted. Not necessarily. Are you certain you can connect to that port from the machine you are running xsane on? Most ISPs block port 25 as a global anti-spam measure. > sending mail from command line using "mailto" works; so xsane shouldn't > have a problem sending mail. > > I can not find any logs for xsane program. Run it from a console. Then you might see some output from the program. -- Joost