Connecting from Live CD

[Mark Greenwood]

On Friday 19 Jun 2009 17:43:55 Steven Vollom wrote:
> On Tuesday 16 June 2009 02:57:12 pm Mark Greenwood wrote:
> > On Tuesday 16 Jun 2009 19:44:12 Mark Greenwood wrote:
> > > On Tuesday 16 Jun 2009 18:46:28 Steven Vollom wrote:
> > > > I forget who posted, sorry, but I was asked to try to connect to the
> > > > Internet and kmail using the live CD, since my computer would not
> > > > connect from the installed Jaunty application.  If this gets through, I
> > > > am connected using Jaunty Live CD.  Thanks!
> > > >
> > > > Steven
> > >
> > > It wasn't me who asked but that's Great!
> > >
> > > I've had an idea. Try something else. Connect your broken computer to
> > > your modem and boot it from the hard disc (not the live CD).
> > >
> > > Make sure KMail is not running.
> > >
> > > Find the following files and *move* them somewhere (for example into
> > > /home/steven): /home/steven/.kde/share/config/kmailrc
> > > /home/steven/.kde/share/config/kmailcvtrc
> > > /home/steven/.kde/share/config/kmail.eventsrc
> > > (If you're using Dolphin you will have to enable View->Show Hidden Files
> > > from the menu to find the .kmail folder) If you can't find all 3, don't
> > > worry, just make sure to move the ones that do exist.
> > >
> > > Also find the following directory and *move* that as well (DON'T delete
> > > it, you will need it later): /home/steven/share/apps/kmail
> > >
> > > Now start KMail again. You will have to reconfigure it but I think you're
> > > getting quite good at that :) You will notice all your old email has also
> > > gone, but that's why you moved the folder and didn't delete it.
> > >
> > > Try sending another email and see if it works. I'm working on the guess
> > > that your kmail configuration is corrupt. This will remove it and allow
> > > you to recreate it. If it sorts out the problem then we'll work on
> > > getting your saved email back. If it doesn't work, put the files and the
> > > folder back where they started from and we'll have another think.
> > >
> > > Mark.
> 
> The only thing I couldn't do is move a file named /kmailcvtrc, I did not have 
> that file.  When completed, I opened and reconfigured kmail.  I could not use 
> the feature (What the server recommends, because I am unable to get a 
> connection through router or modem to the ISP, so I made the proper selections 
> and tried to open kmail.  I got the same error message I have been getting, 
> Unknown Host pop.att.yahoo.com.
> 
> I am going to wait for instructions, because both configuration entries are the 
> same I believe and I hope it doesn't matter which I remove when this is all 
> over.  As far as the moved data, do I just put it back where it was or do I 
> rename the entries that are currently functioning and then return the moved 
> files back.
> 
> Is there any possibility that the fact that I do not have /kmailcvtrc that 
> that could be causing the problem??

Hi Steven,

You should move all the files back where they were. Kmail will have now created new versions of them but you can safely overwrite those. Make sure KMail is not running when you do this.

What we've proved here is that the problem is not with your KMail configuration, so you very probably have a network configuration problem - others are already helping you with this.

The kmailcvtrc file is very unlikely to be anything to do with it. So I would now follow the advice Thomas Olsen has been giving you.

Mark

> 
> Steven
> >
> > ... but try Thomas Olsen's suggestion first, that looks more likely.
> >
> > Mark
> 
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