[kde-linux] kmail send problem

[Paul Kaplan]

On Tuesday 10 January 2006 05:41, Paul Kaplan wrote:
> >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
>
> Ernie,
> Thanks for the insight...Using the same account as root did allow me to
> send, however the Linux Gods have not yet visited me :-(  I tried
> deleting and recreating the account as a normal user, but no luck.  I
> still can't send.
>
> I looked at the file <username>/.kde/share/config/kmailrc for both the
> normal user and root.  In the Transport section, where the sending
> account information is specified, the only difference between the normal
> user account version and the root version is the id number.  Changing
> the value in the user account to that in the root account didn't solve
> the problem.
>
> Even more bizarre, I set up another user on the machine and ran kmail
> from that useraccount with my "non-working" settings.  Lo and behold, it
> worked.
>
> I conclude that in upgrading to kde 3.5, there is a file from the v3.4
> installation (that is not in ~/.kde) and that is conflicting with kmail
> in kde 3.5.
>
> Any thoughts about what this might be?...presumably one of the . files?
> Paul
Wait...the Linux Gods just came down the chimney and took Santa's milk and 
cookies!  Instead of deleting and re-creating my sending accout info from the 
kmail Settings menu, I did it from within a message.  Now sending mail is 
working...for the moment.  I'm certainly stumped on this one...
P