KMail:AMEND Still trying to configure the 'SEND' facility since last advice on 6th & 8th Dec 2005

[Nigel Henry]

On Thursday 15 December 2005 22:14, JACKIE AINSWORTH wrote:
> Hi!
>
> Linux newbies persevering to try and configure KMail
> 'SEND' facility.
> (since original attempt 6 Dec 2005)
> (Recap: therefore communicating by Konq where 'Reply'
> & 'Forward' buttons not working.)
> Last kde at mail.kde.org advice was on 6th, 8th, & 14 Dec
> 05.
>
> New thoughts:
> a) Our KMail 'Receive' facility has been proved to
> work.
> (during 'Receive' the 'Internet Tool'{two pin plug)'
> icon can be seen transferring data
> Does this in itself prove connectivity potential for
> the 'SEND' facility?
>
> b) We have reconfigured 'SEND' to comply with latest
> kde advice.
> When we try to SEND a test email to our own email
> address,
> 1) Firstly the kde 'CLOCK' appears and the hand
> rotates.
> 2) Next the 'INTERNET TOOL{two pin plug)' ICON does
> NOT show that any data is being transferred as 'SEND'
> through the phone line.
> 3) The 'SENT MESSAGES' box remains empty.
> 4) (There are 37 messages in 'Outbox'{attempted Test
> 'Sends'.)
> 5) To confirm that no test messages sent to our own
> email address have appeared in our 'inbox'.
> Wondering if this indicates that:
> Our PC hardware is not sending?    or
> mail.btopenworld.com server refusing to accept?
> How to tell which?
>
> *In a link which you included in last kde advice
> http://lists.suse.com/archive/suse-linux-e/2000-jul/1460.html
>
>    :-
>
> eugene_tyrurin at yahoo.com   wrote:-
> excerpt........"Did you sign up for the POP/SMTP
> access? It's addition procedure to signing up for the
> WWW access."
> Is this common? - (We only got a standard btopenworld
> contract for dial up.) Then he writes: "............
> ,just make sure you've set up DNS servers in Kppp. For
> example, does www.yahoo.com in netscape work?"
> We're afraid that this is getting a bit technical for
> us as mere newbie 'Application USERS' (Can it be this
> difficult to configure KMail ? ..which appears
> standard on the SuSE 9.1 bottom and startup ICON bar.)
> We switched to 'root' but this brings up only YAST on
> our PC. looking in YAST under 'Network Servers' 'DNS'
> servers looks like it's for expert use requiring
> thorough pre-knowledge of the DNS Number ID system? -
> We are out of our depth with this. also under 'help'
> 'search' for 'Kppp' brings up 'nothing found' (?)
> (BTopenworld's 'help' acknowledge requests but do not
> seem to actually reply! Their login page just seems to
> be peppered with advertising for the proprietory
> packaged 'windows' solutions.)
> Using your last advice we changed our 'SEND'
> configuration to:-
> NAME                                           TYPE
> jackieinbosham at btopenworld.com             smtp
> (default)
> Default send method:        Send now
> Message property:  MIME Compliant (Quote printable)
> Default domain:  mail.btopenworld.com
> other boxes now unchecked as suggested.
> [Next field];-
> 'MODIFY TRANSPORT-KMail':-
> Name: jackieinbosham at btopenworld.com
> HOST: mail.btopenworld.com
> PORT 25
> Can anyone help since we have tried unsuccessfully
> this far?
> Kind regards,
> Jackie and Jim.
> NB Feedback about 'Receive'; under field 'ADD
> Account-KMail'
> (Account type there is a circle containing a dot where
> the term 'POP3' does actually occur.)
> Sorry to be appearing regularly with the same problem.
> We don't want to be defeated and have to go back to
> the 'O/S from Redland'.(We been reading about the
> opensource philosophy in Issue 55 of
> www.linuxuser.co.uk with the 'cover' Suse 10 DVD
> [which our PC currently won't have capacity to
> accept].)

Hi. Are you able to surf the web from Konqueror. If so DNS is ok. DNS is 
necessary to convert the URL's that you enter in Konqueror to IP addresses. 

As far as receiving email in Kmail, this can be done from anywhere. The 
problem is in sending email. You need to make sure that everything is set up 
correctly in Kmail to send email through your ISP's smtp server. 

Let me know if you can access the Internet ok with Konqueror. This will at 
least establish that the DNS servers are accessible. Nigel.


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