[kde-linux] kmail problem - can't send mail

[Bruce Bales]

On Wed, 2006-06-21 at 19:11 -0500, Bruce Bales wrote:
> On Wed, 2006-06-21 at 19:04 -0500, Bruce Bales wrote:
> > On Wed, 2006-06-21 at 12:53 -0700, Pollywog wrote:
> > > On Wednesday June 21, 2006 12:50 pm, Pollywog wrote:
> > > > On Wednesday June 21, 2006 11:50 am, Bruce Bales wrote:
> > > > > I recently upgraded to fedora core 5 and yum-installed kmail.  I was
> > > > > able to configure kmail so I can receive messages, but when I send an
> > > > > email it goes into the outbox and stays there.
> > > > >
> > > > > When I try to send a message I get a notice that "this message will not
> > > > > be signed" which I don't understand and another that "this message will
> > > > > not be encrypted" and a notice that "Sending only partially encrypted
> > > > > messages might violate site policy and/or leak sensitive information."
> > > >
> > > > Check the settings in "Settings > Configure kmail > Security"
> > > 
> > > And also "Settings > Configure kmail > Warnings"
> > > You might try disabling the warnings having to do with sending unencrypted 
> > > messages.
> > Removed all warnings -- no change.
> > 
> > How do I find out which version of kmail I have?  "rpm -q kmail" says it
> > isn't installed.
> 
> Never mind about the version.  I tried "kmail --version"
> Qt: 3.3.5
> KDE: 3.5.2-0.2.fc5 Red Hat
> KMail: 1.9.1

This seems strange to me.
When I get the message "Could not connect to smtp.central.cox.net" the
warning also says "The following transport protocol was used -- bbales"
I thought the transport protocol should be smtp????  

And it says "bbales" even when I am sending mail from a different email
address, but I can't find anywhere that bbales could be interpreted as a
protocol.