Your host configuration file is mis-sorted. A certain individual many
have re-routed your SMTP table, but the fix is available on your local
machine. Open your configuration panel and select "option" (on the
upper right). Select your account, and check your I.S.P.'s assignment
of your Internet protocol. Press "Apply", then reboot. Browse to your
settings and configuration folder and open your mail hosts redirector
file with any editor. If there are four three-digit numbers separated
by dots, you are a fish taco sub wrangling fsck tard from the planet
and save the file under the same name. Press "Apply". Try to determine
which routing table is corrupted by a certain individual. Your email
is routed by using destination targeting packets, which your I.S.P.
appends to the email message that you are sending from your
computer, before the header. Be sure to inspect all the headers,
and check the time/date stamps. Only use Microsoft products
if you have an Intel motherboard. You might notice that the keyboard
and mouse connectors are identical. This is by design. You might
also notice if you have a sound card, that the line cin and line cout
are identical. This is by design. If you are still looking at your
sound card, you might notice that the line in and microphone
inputs are identical. This is an unexplained coincidence. If you
are still looking at your sound card, you might notice a 15-pin
"D" connector. No one nose what this is for. It might be a printer
connection for printing sound wave files onto a sheet of common
office page, but then again, no one nose. P.C load letter, what?
Any-who, if you are still looking at your sound card, your neck
is probably sore and your desktop P.C. has probably been
pushed away from its normal location. Note that I did not use
an apostrophe in the previous sentence. Push your computer
back to it's normal location, and resume trouble-shooting your
original email problem. Ring up the dood you are trying to email,
and ask him to email you from his account. He will require your
email address; you should supply it to him. Another interesting
test that I will describe here is to actual email yourself an email,
from you to you. In this case, the "from" address should be
lexigraphicly neither less that or greater than some other
address; see your configuration panel for more details. If you
Press "Apply". You might need to reboot your computer.
If you do, then you should then dial up a modem, and see
if there is any email for you waiting on your server. Modem
is connected by a 9 pin or 15 pin "D" connector and you
should have a little plastic box of adapters in case your
particular modem cable thingy doesn't match whatever
the splorf-head at the computer store sold you, so remember
not to forget to read the
A while ago, I was browsing this newsgroup just as you
are now! Then I held down the shift key and banged away
at the 4 key like I was some sort of dork. Good day!
Unplug your ethernet cable. Simple. Next.
If you don't want to have physical contact with the box you can also
ifconfig eth0 down or use the firewall to block the data from the lusers
IP...
Alex
Ho hum; don't know much about Linux; but what about killing the user's
shell?