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

[Stan Goodman]

On 02/05/2012 11:21 AM, Anders Lund wrote:
>> 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.
> If you scroll down in the dialog that pops up when you click "Add...", there
> is the option to add a pop3 resource, which asks for the mail server etc. I
> think that is what you want.
>
> I agree that it is confusing that the storage directory is suddenly considered
> an account.
>
> You need only one of those, and one is provided pr default, namely the "Local
> folders". When adding a pop3 account, the "Advanced" tab contains an option
> for where to store the mail, it defaults to "Local folders/indbakke".
>
> Anders

I don't wonder that I didn't see the additional options in the lower 
(undisplayed) part of the dialog; that window has no scroll bars, as you 
can see in the screenshots, and there is no reason for one to think 
there is more. Thanks for pointing it out. The POP side of Kmail is now 
working, except for the annoying fact that the field for entering the 
password for the POP server is greyed out, so I can't enter it, and I 
have to supply it manually the first time in a session that I want to 
retrieve mail. That has to go.

Now that Kmail can receive mail, I can test the SMTP side (the servers 
require that I retrieve mail, and only then can I send mail. I find that 
sending is impossible, and the attempt brings up the following error 
message: "...The server responded 'sorry, your envelope sender domain 
must exist (#57,1)'"

I have no idea what it thinks is wrong. The settings in this 
configuration are copied from the configuration of a well-functioning 
copy of Kmail in v11.4. If they work in one instance, they should work 
in the other. I don't see how to diagnose this problem, or for that 
matter the one of the greyed out password field in the POP side.

-- 
Stan Goodman
Qiryat Tiv'on
Israel
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