Laptop email sending problem

[Steven Vollom]

tom bell wrote:
>> Message: 1
>> Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2008 16:08:05 -0400
>> From: Steven Vollom <stevenvollom at sbcglobal.net>
>> Subject: Laptop email sending problem
>> To: Kubuntu Help and User Discussions <kubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com>
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>> I recently purchased a used Compaq Ivo N620c laptop.  I configured the 
>> email client the same as my desktop.  Both have Kubuntu 8.04 and KDE 
>> 3.5.9.  Both run Firefox and Thunderbird as default.  When I attach my 
>> DSL cable moden to the laptop, I am able to surf the internet, as well 
>> as receive emails, however when I attempt to send an email, a window 
>> opens asking the password for my email server.  I type in the password 
>> an click enter and the selfsame window opens again and again.  I get an 
>> unable to connect to the server also.  I have tried to get help from 
>> att.yahoo, but they are not helpful because I am not using their mail 
>> program or their browser and am using Kubuntu Hardy instead of Microsoft 
>> or Apple.  I have used Kubuntu for 3 years with Firefox and Thunderbird 
>> on my desktop with no problems.  The fact that I receive emails but 
>> cannot send suggests that at least part of the program is working.  Help 
>> please.
>>
>> Steven Vollom
>>     
> Sounds to me like you are attempting to send out email using a secure
> login.  Check your desk settings and see if it is set for a secure login
> when using SMTP to send email.  You do need a login for receiving email
> via POP, but most of the time unless the ISP requires it you don't need
> a password for using SMTP.  I have had serveral ISPs over the years and
> have never had to enter a password for secure login with SMTP. 
> For background, I have been using the internet since the days of telnet,
> gopher, archie, and File Transfer Protocol, before HTML was even
> invented.  I have used dialup, ISDN, DSL and now cable.  I ran a BBS for
> eight years out of my home. 
> So, I would say check "Edit->Account Settings->Outgoing Server->Edit"
> and seed if "Use secure connection" is checked (or ticked).  To send
> outgoing email make sure it is. 
> If you plug into another internet connection (i.e., your friend's or
> work) that is not your ISP then you cannot send email by SMTP.  You can
> use a browser to login to your ISP's homepage and go to their email
> login and compose email online and send it that way.
> That is my fifty cents worth (inflation on 2 cents).
> Good luck!
>
> Tom
>
>   
Dear Tom,

Thanks for your help.  Valter Mura gave me the solution.  Apparently I 
was seeing without seeing.  I thought I was so careful to check every 
jot and tittle that I overlooked something that I actually knew all the 
time.   I sometimes have to prove I can make stupider mistakes than 
previously.  You'd think at my age I would learn.  I have taken so much 
time from so many kind people only to find I was careless.  Thanks again.

Steven