At wits end over holding a sticky setting in kmail

O. Sinclair o.sinclair at gmail.com
Wed May 29 15:28:42 UTC 2013


On 29/05/2013 16:46, Gene Heskett wrote:
> Greetings all;
>
> I have 3 email servers I can access for receiving, but only one to use for
> sending.  Two of them are actually gmail as I have an account there, and I
> have an account at my ISP, which is in fact an alias for gmail for about
> the last year.
>
> Gmail, for some UNK reason stopped accepting my posts about 6 months back
> and I had to scramble around subbing to all my mailing lists thru a server
> at the tv station I retired from, and which I have lifetime privileges to
> use.
>
> But kmail, despite all the sticky settings, insists on using a random roll
> of the dice about 1% of the time as to which of these servers it will use
> to send.  Obviously this is a pain in the ass that takes about an hour to
> fix because the poorly addressed message cannot be edited to fix it until
> it times out and allows the send to be aborted.
>
> Is there some file in kmail that I can set the immutable bit on to stop
> this errant behavior?
>
I am not 100 I get you correct but you need to use only 1 smtp server 
regardless of "sending account"? Far from all smtp servers will accept 
you sending "from another domain" but if you have an smtp server like 
that you should only need to remove the others?




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