Hi. Does anybody have experience using KMail (v1.9.5) in Fedora Core 6 to send messages out through GMail's POP service ?

I'm having problems sending messages, and I had this working through YahooMail's POP service.

The difference is that GMail requires the use of a secured SMTP connection from the email client to their server to be able to send messages out.

This is an extract from their guideline:

Outgoing Mail (SMTP) Server - requires TLS: smtp.googlemail.com (use authentication)
Use Authentication: Yes
Use STARTTLS: Yes (some clients call this SSL)
Port: 465 or 587
Account Name: your Google Mail username (including @googlemail.com)
Email Address: your full Google Mail email address (username@googlemail.com)
Password: your Google Mail password

Please note that if your client does not support SMTP authentication, you will not be able to access your Google Mail messages.
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These are screenshots of my settings in KMail

I got the Security settings clicking on the "Check what server supports" button.

http://www.techspot.com/gallery/data...ailSending.png

http://www.techspot.com/gallery/data...lSending-2.png



Do you have any tip to have this working ?

Thnx

Hi VicRic!
I read the instructions of Gmail, and found this: Here the STARTTLS is the point. SSL is a TLS too, but an other. So, chose the SSL encryption option in kmail. This should fix the problem.

Thanks PusRob, however that doesn't work for me.

At first I thought it was a problem in KMail but I tried with Thunderbird and Evolution and got the same problem.

I've been reading in other forums that it is more likely a problem in GMail's server - it works for some people immediately, for others it doesn't work at all or is inconsistent.

I went back to YahooMail. As I said, in the past I used unsecured SMTP access (via port 25) and of course it worked. Now I noticed they also offer secure connection (SSL via port 465) and I tried it - it worked perfectly first try.

I'm happy with YahooMail.

BRgds

GMail vs YahooMail ?

http://www.cnettv.com/9710-1_53-27025.html


... with all due respect:

HA !

Hi
I have a yahoomail account too, and I like it more than gmail. I never had gmail, but I saw it plenty of times when others used it, and I didn't like it. In yahoo do you need to pay to use the POP and SMTP services? Asking because I could use this function too, if I knew how to make it work. I read on yahoo, that I need to pay to use the POP3 sevice. Is it true?

Have you browsed through the client configuration how-to's on Google site ?

http://mail.google.com/support/bin/a...y?answer=12103

You should be able to glean whatever information you seem to be missing from one of those how-to's. I've been using Thunderbird at home for Gmail access ever since they enabled POP/SMTP access, with no problems.

From that video, the YahooMail interface, sure looks a lot like Zimbra

I would uncheck the box.
Mine works with SSL with the exact same configurations as urs.