Todd Zullinger <tmz <at> pobox.com> writes: > > Thufir wrote: > > By editing the rss2email config file, I can make it use my isp's > > SMTP server? > > Yep. > > > I'm not at the pc now, but will try later. I take it that you're a > > user of rss2email? Looks pretty neat :) > > I've meant to check it out before but never got around to it until > last night. ;) [root@localhost .rss2email]# [root@localhost .rss2email]# [root@localhost .rss2email]# date Sun Apr 15 08:56:28 BST 2007 [root@localhost .rss2email]# r2e run Fatal error: could not connect to mail server "mail.vc.shawcable.net" [root@localhost .rss2email]# date Sun Apr 15 09:36:28 BST 2007 [root@localhost .rss2email]# [root@localhost .rss2email]# ll total 24 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 380 Apr 15 08:51 config.py -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 418 Apr 15 08:53 config.pyc -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 185 Apr 15 08:59 feeds.dat [root@localhost .rss2email]# cat config.py # Find some common used config options below; all can be found all and # descriptions in the section titled "### Vaguely Customizable Options ###" # near the top of /usr/share/rss2email/rss2email.py DEFAULT_FROM="bozo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx" HTML_MAIL=1 SMTP_SEND=1 SMTP_SERVER="" AUTHREQUIRED=0 SMTP_USER="username" SMTP_PASS="password" DATE_HEADER=0 # PROXY="" [root@localhost .rss2email]# [root@localhost .rss2email]# date Sun Apr 15 09:37:02 BST 2007 [root@localhost .rss2email]# [root@localhost .rss2email]# ping mail.vc.shawcable.net PING mail.vc.shawcable.net (24.71.223.37) 56(84) bytes of data. >From rc1so-pos11-0.cg.shawcable.net (66.163.76.9) icmp_seq=3 Destination Host Unreachable >From rc1so-pos11-0.cg.shawcable.net (66.163.76.9) icmp_seq=4 Destination Host Unreachable >From rc1so-pos11-0.cg.shawcable.net (66.163.76.9) icmp_seq=6 Destination Host Unreachable >From rc1so-pos11-0.cg.shawcable.net (66.163.76.9) icmp_seq=8 Destination Host Unreachable --- mail.vc.shawcable.net ping statistics --- 8 packets transmitted, 0 received, +4 errors, 100% packet loss, time 7000ms [root@localhost .rss2email]# so....not a suprising result. -Thufir
