[kde-linux] Kmail 4.082

[Anne Wilson]

On Tuesday 17 June 2008 15:56:40 David Baron wrote:
> On Tuesday 17 June 2008 13:00:11 kde-linux-request at kde.org wrote:
> > > Still cannot send mail, obviously a showstopper.
> > >
> > > Note that I send to localhost and exim does the work. Get a message in
> > > kmail about malformed ELO. Would there be something I need to set in
> > > kmail or exim to fix this/
> >
> > Strange.  KMail is working fine for me, both under Fedora and Mandriva.
> >  How about giving us the details of your setup?  Usually, when you start
> > to spell it out, you realise the tiny detail that you've been
> > overlooking. Let's hope it does, anyway :-)
>
> OK, Running Debian Sid with experimental KDE packages.
> I cannot mail out directly from kmail because my provider does not allow
> relaying (what they do from a dynamic IP--they'll gladly let me pay for a
> fixed one, of course). So I send mail smarthost through exim4. So the
> "target" is localhost. Exim4 actually sends the message to the destination
> using the provider as a "smarthost".
>
> Both the rejection of "relaying" (direct through the provider) and the ELO
> (localhost) come immediately with the message remaining in outbox.
>
I'm not sure that I understand this - at least, I don't understand where 
relaying comes into it.  Let me tell you about my setup, then you tell me 
what's different in yours.

I should start by saying that I don't know the first thing about exim.

My IMAP server also acts as my smtp server.  My normal usage is to send to my 
server, which directs local traffic to the lan, then the rest to my ISP's 
server.  When away from home I use googlemail's smtp server.  Both work 
perfectly.

This is how I set up kmail -

Home -
Name - Local smtp
Host - 192.168.0.40
Port - 25
Security Tab -
Encryption
None

Roaming
Name - Googlemail
Host - smtp.googlemail.com
Port - 465
X Server requires authentication
Login - my googlemail login
Password - mypasswd
Security Tab -
Encyption - SSL
Authentication Method - Plain

HTH

Anne