On Mon November 1 2004 7:18 am, Constant Brouerius van Nidek wrote:
Running 9.1 with KDE 3.3.0 with dialup. I am using Kmail and since years I have had no problems whatshowever. I have the feeling that my ISP is playing around with their server but they deny that this is the case. Since two days dialing goes fine but after some waiting I get the message that the pop.indo.net.id could not be found. This pop server is the one which is included in my Kmail setup since years. If I okay the error message I can connect to my ISP pop server without any problems. Is there a method to make visible what the ISP is expecting instead of the (my) usual input? Why can I connect the second time without problems? Is my ISP the second time not receiving the string pop.indo.net.id? The actual problem is not severe but prevents me from an automated download of my email at hourly intervals. And by the way, I am also not able to send email after having made the connection. Unknown host: smtp.indo.net.id not found.
I am having the same problem with kmail authentication on sending only with cable modem not dialup. I have narrowed it down to a kmail memory resident problem. Not sure what is getting confused but a reboot brings it back to authenticating on sending email again. This has been happening for several SUSE versions and many KDE/kmail versions. I can go days, weeks, months without an authentication problem and then it just happens. Before rebooting I've verified that its not an ISP issue by using Evolution or Mozilla mail or Thunderbird with the same ISP email settings and they work no problem. My resolution so far is to reboot. Neither a login/logout of the user, a restart of kdm/X has worked. This happens on several different machines with different versions of SUSE and KDE and kmail. All the same ISP with different user accounts. I haven't narrowed it down any more than this. It took quite a long time to get this far. Stan