[plug] Problem solved- Sylpheed E mail program works!

[Bernd Felsche]

On Tue, Jun 03, 2003 at 01:29:02AM +0800, Barry Cugley wrote:
> Prior to attending last Monday night's meeting the situation was
> that after starting up pon, Netscape was able to roam the web but
> Sylpheed (an E mail program) was not abe to find my ISP.  How
> could this be?

> It seems the problem was that pppconfig was not configured with
> the correct primary and secondary DNS numbers. I had assumed that
> pppconfig must be right since Netscape's connection to the
> internet must rely on pppconfig. However, it seems this is not
> true! The DNS numbers configured into Netscape overcame the
> problem of incorrect DNS numbers in pppconfig. So Netscape worked
> fine. However, Sylpheed does rely on pppconfig being set up
> properly and since pppconfig had not been given the correct DNS
> numbers Sylpheed was was not able to connect to the ISP.

> Since changing the DNS numbers in pppconfig Sylpheed has worked fine.

Woohoo... nice to see that my knowing "nothing" about Debian wasn't
an obstacle.

> Particular thanks goest o Burney (I hope thats spelt right) for
> solving this problem.

No you didn't spell that right, but it's not important.

What's important is that you now have one less reason to boot
Windows. :-)

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