Version: (using KDE Devel) Installed from: Compiled sources Compiler: gcc 3.4.1 OS: Linux I don't exactly know whether this is a bug or a wish because only KMail behaves like this. When logged on via DSL on a T-Online account it's not needed anymore to provide a name or password to get the emails from their pop3 accounts. This works in Evolution where you simply leave the password field empty (it also works if you leave name and password empty). Unfortunatly KMail requires proper authentification with name and password. Therefore I would like to ask whether it's possible to leave name and password empty even in KMail but do receive the T-Online emails. Due to security reasons I don't like to have my T-Online authentification be saved in my homedirectory since the authentification does more than simply accessing the T-Online pop3 account it also authenticates my DSL connection to the internet.
Afaik you can simply enter "." or something other as password for T-Online.
No, this doesn't work (while it does in Evolution) somehow KMail wants true username and true userpassword.
I use my mail adresse as user name and the password, set within kde while setting up kmail. After establishing the internet connection I fail to get mails wit the error message " logon at pop.t-online.de impossible, may be the password is wrong" plus server message " Mailbox locked! is other pop3-connection active?". After repeating the logon the same way, someone the authentification and po3 connection workes. Leaving kmail open while reopening the internent connection it usually work emmideately. I havbe tested with password ".", but it does not work.
Does something like pop.t-online.de exist ? If so then I would assume it to refer to the old pop 1 protocol and thus it might fail. I usually refer to pop3.t-online.de because it refers to the pop 3 protocol. Sure naming a subnet in a domain doesn't refer to the real protocol used but by definition and common practice it shows what is meant.
See also bug 14920.
For t-online you can use anything as USER/PASS - at least from the POP3 server standpoint. you can even say "foo" and "bar" or something. IIRC the POP3 server answers with something like "you don't need to specify USER/PASS". Maybe this confuses kmail. As I don't have T-Online I can just speak of my memory. T-Online has some idea of single sign on. You dial in their network and you can send and receive email without further authentication. So I think there are basically two solutions: 1. Work around that "you don't need" message. 2. Change the definition of user/pass to be optional and/or empty. And therefore don't try to login for no user/pass and send empty for empty user/pass - this would solve bug 14920, too
No, this doesn't work here.
*** Bug 14920 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
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