[kdepim-users] Configuring Kmail account in KDE v4.7 (With Screenshots)

[Stan Goodman]

On Fri 3Feb2012 at 1034+0200 Anders Lund <anders at alweb.dk> wrote:
Fredag den 3. februar 2012 10:16:52 Stan Goodman skrev:

>> The OS is openSuSE v12.1 x86_64, newly installed in a clean partition.
>>
>> Configuring Kmail for sending was a snap; to do the same for receiving
>> has me flummoxed.
>>
>> In Kmail settings > Accounts > Receiving, I see a screen that offers me
>> a choice between defining a Local folder or an Akonadi folder. No
>> problem there -- I chose the local folder, and accepted the default
>> folder name. What now? I do not see any clue about how to progress to
>> actually configuring an account -- username, password, server name, etc.
>>
>> The very ample Help screen is of no help, since it seems not to have
>> caught up with v4.7, and it fails to mention this first screen at all. I
>> have also found nothing through a 'Net search. Either I am missing
>> something that is obvious to everyone else, or there is a bug on this
>> screen.
>>
>> How can I graduate to the actual configuration screens for the receive
>> function?
>
> If you press "add", there should be options for pop3 or imap servers

But it doesn't go much further than that, and doesn't enable me to 
configure the incoming account with the details of the server..

What happens is much better explained with the aid of screenshots, which 
can be seen at <ftp.hashkedim.com/pub/KmailCfg.pdf>, which also corrects 
some errors I made in the earlier description quoted above.

-- 
Stan Goodman
Qiryat Tiv'on
Israel
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