mail mystery

[Net Llama!]

On Tue, 20 Feb 2007, dep wrote:
> this isn't sendmail but it is mail and it is a mystery, and it's driven
> me crazy for two months now.
>
> switched to satellite modem -- wild blue; had to, was on dialup max.
> 26.4 with no hope of wire ever actually getting out here. and what
> everyone here said when i was preparing to move here more than two
> years ago is right: dialup is the only thing satellite is better than.
>
> anyway.
>
> since switching to satellite i am having terrible difficulty sending
> mail through one account. it goes fine through others, but this one
> chokes -- usually times out after five minutes or so, then if i try
> again it usually goes through.
>
> it went through fine with the same configuration (password,
> authentication, encryption) on the dialup. only change are satellite
> and insertion of linksys internet gadget/router/firewall/nat box, which
> except for the obvious tightening and password change is pretty much at
> default settings.
>
> using kmail 1.9.5. have probed server for what it wants and have adopted
> its settings, which are the same as it wanted before. and it involves
> only the one upstream server.
>
> i can't really imagine that it's a latency issue, and the isp says all
> is well there, with nothing changed.
>
> anybody have a sense of any diagnostics i could run in hope of figuring
> out where this is going all pear-shaped?

Youv'e provided basically no information other than to state that 
*something* is failing.  Are you getting an error message?  If so, what it 
is?

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