Wow, I feel foolish.  I read on the internet about needing a sendmail config file, so I was messing around with that, and then that works, although my ISP swallows it, and it just disapears.  But, then I was bouncing through kmail's config dialogs and notices that I had never actually filled in my email address under the Identities, which is of course page 1.  After I did that I got an error on my password. I fixed this by changing my authentication setting.  I was using achoens.  I tried achoens@frontiernet.net and everything was fine.  This email was sent from kmail, so all is well if you can read it.  Just one question though.   Why do I have to use achoens@frontiernet.net with kmail while achoens works fine under evolution?  (I installed evolution onto this machine just to prove to myself that it was my kmail config not my ISP. It doesn't really matter, I'm just curious. Carl, thanks for all the help.  You were also really friendly and not an !@#$ when I forgot to post  the error message.  If everyone is this friendly, I might hang out for a while on this list, could be fun. --andy On Wednesday 10 November 2004 10:21 pm, Carl Luescher wrote:

Sounds familiar. Under network settings in kmail, check outgoing (smtp) should have port 25.

/Carl

On Wednesday 10 November 2004 21:12, achoens@frontiernet.net wrote:

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Hi there,

I recently switched over from Fedora Core to SuSE 9.1 (I'll get 9.2 as soon as I see it, until then I'm on a borrowed 9.1) on a Toshiba Laptop. I used to use evolution as my email client and it always worked fine. I not have kmail set up as my email client and I can download from the pop3 server just fine, but I always get errors on the smtp side of life. I just can't send anything out.

Here's what I've tried. I've tried playing with YAST to see if I needed to set things up via the mail mta program, but it hasn't made any difference. I tried turning postfix off, but it didn't help. I never had postfix or sendmail installed on Fedora and everything worked fine. I do not have postfix installed on my system right now. I don't see why I should need it.

I have checked and rechecked ALL of my typing in the dialogs, so I really don't think it's that problem. My username is achoens. My smtp server is smtp.frontiernet.net. I have tried using the user name achoens and achoens@frontiernet.net, which is something I used to have to do with another ISP a long time ago, although I never did it with Evolution. I'm kinda stuck right now, and of course their people won't/can't help beyond Outlook or mail.app. I'm not supported.

So, is there a setting somewhere I need to tweak? Should I upgrade to KDE 3.3.1? Any ideas at all?

--andy