Kmail sending problem.

[David Fletcher]

On Sunday 14 December 2008 04:20:09 Kevin B. O'Brien wrote:
>
> As far as I know, there is no reason for a server to care about the OS
> used to send mail. I use Thunderbird on both Linux and Windows machines,
> and it works fine on both.
Same here - the idea is that everybody speaks the same protocols for each 
purpose and understands each other.
>
> Since the issue you had was with sending, I would go through a checklist
> on configuration. Verify the SMTP server, make sure you have all of the
> usual account information correct. And see if they are using some kind
In my experience, if you select one of your sending accounts, click modify, 
then the security tab and click the "Check what the Server Supports" button, 
and it configures the security settings without issuing any error message, 
then the sending account is good to go. If this step fails, then something is 
wrong.

> of authentication on sending mail. That is something they might be doing
> as an anti-spam measure. Also, are they using the normal port? My
> Comcast account, for instance, forced me to change the port for SMTP
> from the normal 25 to  587. They claimed they had detected spam coming
This is a good work around if you need/want to use an SMTP box other than the 
one your ISP provides. I do it because I consider the SMTP service provided 
by the specialist web services provider I use to be more reliable than that 
provided by my ISP, plus I can use it from anywhere I can get a connection 
for my laptop.

Something I don't think anybody has mentioned, or I've missed it:- After you 
set up an identity with your reply-to address etc., you can set that identity 
to use a specific sending account, that you already verified using the Check 
what the Server Supports procedure. Select the identity, click Modify, select 
the Advanced tab. At the bottom is a tick box marked "Special Transport". If 
this is selected you can specify which sending account is used for the 
identity. That way, you know exactly what it will do when the Send button is 
clicked.

Dave