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[Franky Goethals <franky.goethals@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi James,

When i configure kmail to my localhost, i'm getting following message 'Unable 
to login. Probabely the password is wrong. The server replied: LOGIN failed'

I'm using the same userid & password as the one i'm logged-on with at my 
workstation.

Heeeeeeeeeeelp ?


On Thursday 02 December 2004 15:34, James Knott wrote:
> Franky Goethals wrote:
> > Hi James,
> > I think that my problem was that in the configuration i've done with
> > Yast, i'dd choosen the option 'deliver to Cyrus IMAP' or something like
> > that. From your explanation, i think i need to take the option 'LOCAL',
> > and then point my email-client to localhost, with userid & password of my
> > linux-box. Am i correct in this ? Perhaps i'm searching a solution that's
> > too difficult, and it's easy :-) How do i configure the sending of mail
> > then ? Does this point also to localhost ? How did you do that ? Do my
> > sent emails come into a folder in IMAP also then ? Kind regards & thanks
> > in advance !
> > Franky.
>
> That's correct, point the e-mail client to the username on localhost or
> computer name.  You'll also have to use SSL.  As for sending, there's no
> difference, from using a pop server.  You just configure the smtp server
> as before, using the info provided by the ISP.  However, one thing you
> may want to do, is to save sent messages in a folder on the imap server.

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