[kde-linux] kmail send problem

[Ernie Schroder]

On Sunday 08 January 2006 13:54, a tiny voice compelled Paul Kaplan to write:
> I've never previously had a problem sending mail from kmail on this box
> (or any other) using kde since 1.0.  Most recently w/ kmail 1.8 I was
> fine from this box connecting to a POP3 server.
> Since upgrading to kde3.5/kmail1.9 I am able only to receive mail but I
> can't send anything.  I am met with "Transport protocol unrecognized.
> Unable to send message"  I can ping my smtp server and I am sending this
> e-mail from Evolution, so the box seems to be OK.
> Is this a bug?  If not, any suggestions?
> TIA
> Paul
>

I struggled for almost a week with the same problem after removing old 
versions of KDE. I tried reinstalling kdepim, kdelibs, kdenetwork and 
anything else that I imagined was even remotely related. I posted a couple of 
times here but got no response.
Logs were telling me nothing of use, but on the hunch that it was a permission 
problem, I started kmail as root and set up one of my accounts from scratch. 
IT SENT MAIL.
I then closed roots kmail and opened it as user again. For the 3rd time, I 
deleted my accounts and profiles. First I recreated the account that had 
worked as root and I was able to send mail. The second account worked as well 
after I recreated that.
Logic tells me that creating an account and sending mail as root, had nothing 
to do with the solution, but, unless the Linux Gods had visited durring the 
night, this was the solution. If you can confirm this, I would really 
appreciate it.
-- 
Regards, Ernie