kmail-not able to send after upgrade to kde 3.4.1

hi- after upgrading to kde 3.4.1 from the version of kde that shipped with suse 9.2, i can no longer send emails. the error msg is: "Authorization failed, an error occured during authentication: SASL(-4): no mechanism available: No worthy mechs found authentication not supported." can anyone tell me what this error msg is trying to point me to? i've got another machine that that has no problem with the kde 3.4.1 upgrade. anyone have any ideas? thanx robert -- "The more I study religions the more I am convinced that man never worshipped anything but himself." Sir Richard Francis Burton