At wits end over holding a sticky setting in kmail

Nils Kassube kassube at gmx.net
Wed May 29 15:38:34 UTC 2013


Gene Heskett wrote:
> 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'm not sure in which file the settings are saved, but you can select 
the outgoing server at the identity settings of the kmail configuration.


Nils





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