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nepal nepal.roade at googlemail.com
Mon Dec 15 21:01:37 UTC 2008


On Monday 15 December 2008 18:14:39 Nils Kassube wrote:
> nepal wrote:
> > On Sunday 14 December 2008 12:02:46 Billie Walsh wrote:
> > > I still feel like there is some configuration
> > > problem with kmail but I'm not a kmail user so have no idea.
> >
> > i agree, I had terrible problems getting kmail setup when I newly
> > installed 8.04 here. The problem manifests similarly to
> > Stephen's. I post and the message gets dumped in the out tray til
> > I fix it, and there is nothing to fix.
>
> I don't think it is the same problem because IIRC Steven only ever
> mentioned one email account.

Its going back a bit now, but IIRC he did.

> > What I narrowed it down to was a problem with more than one
> > transport protocol (i.e. the smtp account). Whenever I tried to
> > send a message with a google account the transport protocol kept
> > defaulting to mypostoffice smtp account and so obviously would
> > not send. I tried all manner of tweaking to fix it
>
> I never see a problem like that. Did you enable the "special
> transport" option for each identity? And did you select the correct
> transport for the individual identities?

Yes, tried all of that without success and mucho mucho frustration.

> > To fix the transport protocol problem,
> > in the end I erased the mypostoffice smtp accounts, and set
> > googlemail up as the only transport protocol, so everything gets
> > posted/carried through googlemail now and works correctly.
>
> Interesting. Does googlemail accept sending from addresses of other
> accounts? I know that none of the providers I use would accept
> that.
>
>
> Nils

Yes, it does exactly that, so if I want to send a mail from one of my 
@mypostoffice.co.uk accounts, now I can do it this way as Googlemail 
allows me to.

nepal.






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