Bug 163034

Summary:	smtp send gets a server response which fails to recognize the sender. Cannot send email
Product:	[Unmaintained] kmail	Reporter:	Graham Sheward <gsheward>
Component:	general	Assignee:	kdepim bugs <kdepim-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED UNMAINTAINED
Severity:	normal	CC:	bjoern, lemma
Priority:	NOR	Keywords:	triaged
Version:	1.9.9
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	unspecified
OS:	Linux
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Description Graham Sheward 2008-06-01 23:34:44 UTC

Version: 1.9.9 (using 3.5.9 "release 62.4" , openSUSE )
Compiler: Target: i586-suse-linux
OS: Linux (i686) release 2.6.22.17-0.1-default

I have tried kmail on KDE 3.9.5, the latest for suse10.3 and also on KDE 4.0.4 stable for suse10.3. Kmail will not send email via smtp, authorised or unauthorised. Today is 2 jun 2008, and the problem has been around for two to four weeks. It may have been induced by a recent change/update to kmail via suseupdater, as kmail had been working excellently until this happened.

While i am here, kde4.0.4 stable is of no use as a desktop if applications that depend on kde3 wont run in kde 4 (amarok, k3b are two such apps).Hence, I have installed kde 3.9.5 and I will mention that I am reluctant to cosider upgrading to suse11.0 because of kde4 may not support applications for some time; I do hope that i am wrong here.

I know the information in the fields of kmail are correct as this same information is used in thunderbird, which I have temporaily switched to and it does send email. And that raises another issue, I cannot export my mail to thunderbird, I can export the address book. Exporting mail out of kmail to another email application or a file (to reimport later) would be good especially when i upgrade suse. I have found that I need to save my files before updating suse, and reloading a new suse from scratch and then import my files. via suseupdater.

I wish I new more about the inner workings of kde and suse to be of more valuable help, unfortunately I don't.

Graham

Please fix these issues

Comment 1 Graham Sheward 2008-06-02 20:38:41 UTC

I am using KDE 3.5.9 not 3.9.5.

Comment 2 Jan Essert 2009-04-04 16:10:55 UTC

Hello Graham,

unfortunately, it is quite difficult to find out what is wrong without additional information from your side. Since your report is now over half a year old and both kde 3.5.10 and kde 4.2.2 are already out, could you please confirm that the problem still exists?

If so, could you please tell us what the kmail error message states?

About the exporting of emails: You should be able to import the emails from thunderbird, since kmail emails are stored either as mbox oder maildir, both of which are standard formats. You might need a plugin for thunderbird to do so, and you might need to locate your emails. I am not quite sure where they are in kmail 3.5.9, but you might want to look in ~/.kde/share/apps/kmail .

Of course, I hope we can solve your problem and you will not need to change to thunderbird ;)

Comment 3 Björn Ruberg 2010-01-26 00:39:34 UTC

Waiting for information

Comment 4 Andrew Crouthamel 2018-09-04 18:22:12 UTC

Hello! Sorry to be the bearer of bad news, but this version of Kmail has been unmaintained for many years so I am closing this bug. Please try using the latest version of Kmail to see if your issue persists. If it does, please submit a new bug in "kmail2". Thank you!