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Original von park19

I just installed KDE 3.2 and am still experimenting. Now, I am having a problem sending mail from Kmail 1.6. I get an error saying

Sending failed:
Unknown error
Unexpected server response to EHLO command.
The server responded: "Unknown command"
The message will stay in the 'outbox' folder until you either fix the problem (e.g. a broken address) or remove the message from the 'outbox' folder.
The following transport protocol was used: <server>

Have you checked if the entry for your outgoing mail server
is correctly set? "<server>" sounds like some default...
The server you want to use should be the topmost in the list
(at least for simple setups). Maybe the config was mangled
during the update (though it worked for me automatically...)?

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Original von park19


I was able to send mail in the previous version and haven't changed any settings. Also, I'm not an expert, but shouldn't it be "HELO" instead of "EHLO"?

Not necessarily. Both commands exist.
IIRC they are from different protocol versions (not entirely sure though).

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Original von park19

Yes, I substituted <server> for the host name of my mail server in the previous message. I have only one outgoing server.

I'm not suggesting you overlooked something simple,
but I'm gripping for straws here:
- Do you have filled out the *server* field in the config
in addition to the transport's *name* field?
- Did you do an auto-probe of the mail server's capabilities
to make sure everything is alright there?
(In the security tab in the outgoing mail server's config)
- If there's more than one supported encryption / login
method, did you try different ones?

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Original von park19

Yes, I believe I have all of the fields filled out correctly. When I auto-probe the security settings, I get back an Unknown Error Code 0, with message telling me to send a full bug report to bugs.kde.com. But I have these set to no encryption and Plain authentication, which is where they've always been.

I fired up an old copy of Mozilla Mail still on my system and sent a message through the server without a problem. Server name and user name are the same. Port number is the same. There is something else that is causing this. A bug? Some other KDE setting?

Might be time to file a bug report,
especially since KMail seems to have detected something "unusual".

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Original von park19

Beginning to regret the upgrade now.

I don't, KDE 3.2 just works for me...doesn't help you though...

I have a simular problem, I have everything set up correctly, I even did "Check what the server supports" (it worked for me finally, but i just wasn't patient enough) Anyway, I know that all the settings are cool, because I installed Thunderbird and with the same settings it works great. The problem is that as soon as I hit send it INSTANTLY says "Failed to send (some) queued messages."

I posted my problem here also.


On a side note, what is the base code for Kmail? is it original or is it mozilla or gecko based. If so, does it have any spam filtering like mozilla?

Thanks

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Original von gondoi

On a side note, what is the base code for Kmail? is it original or is it mozilla or gecko based.

AFAIK it's original.
BTW: Gecko is the HTML rendering engine used in Mozilla, i.e. not directly mail-related.

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Original von gondoi

If so, does it have any spam filtering like mozilla?

No, not built-in. But the KMail developers are building a wizard to set up external spam filters for the next release:
https://mail.kde.org/pipermail/kdepim-users/2004-January/000096.html

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Original von cmbofh

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Original von gondoi

On a side note, what is the base code for Kmail? is it original or is it mozilla or gecko based.

AFAIK it's original.
BTW: Gecko is the HTML rendering engine used in Mozilla, i.e. not directly mail-related.

KMail's code is all orginal. The message renderer is of course KHTML (I guess hardcoded not runtime loaded)

Cheers,
_

btw, got it to work.. people on the gentoo forums helped me out. Had to fill in the reply-to address. But this seems kinda odd to me. Is this reported as a bug? seems to me it should default to the account email.. or possibly <user>@<host> or something like that.

Hi,

I got the same problem.

Installed Mandrake 10, configured Kontact / KMail, receiving mail works allright, but sending does not work.

Configured evolution on the same machine, sending and receiving works flawless.... :-(

I have no problem to ping the mail server(s) from konsole.

From another machine on the same network, running Mandrake 9.2 I configured KMail 1.5.3 using KDE 3.1.3, sending and receiving without any poblem.

During startup a see a message that bringing up eth0 has failed, but all TCP/IP facilities work normal.

IS THERE ANY WAY TO LOG KMAIL?
I can't find any error anywhere apart from the message "Failed to send (some) queued messages." in the bottom messagebar of KMail.
On a next day trial, I get following message:

Sending failed:

Your SMTP server doesn'tsupport authentication.
The server responded: "Error:command not implemented"

...

Does anybody have any idea?

Thanks,

Erwinjavascript:emoticon('')

I had a similar problem when I first installed Mandrake 10 with KDE 3.2
Kmail kept saying some queued messages could not be sent.

This may sound weird but I solved it by deleting the original email I was attempting to send, and creating a new one. I have no idea how that fixed the problem, but I haven't had any issues since.

Thanks for your information.
I know that unsent mail blocks more recent mail from being sent. Unless there is some 'hidden' message blocking this is not the case.

I did a fresh install on a second machine, same network , the problem remains the same!

Two different machines, identical problem!?

Suggestions?

Regards,

Erwin :roll: