I have been able ot receive email the only problem is sending them I have bellsouth as my ISP and from there info my SMTP server is mail.mia.bellsouth.net i put this in as my host but yet it gives me a error that address is missing a domain. What does this mean? Does anyone know why this is happening

Are you sure you need the "mia" part? I use Southwestern Bell and mine is mail.swbell.net.

Well sorry about that no i don't I just put mail.bellsouth.net but for some reason it keeps teling me i am missing a domain and I can't figure out why

Sorry about that it was a typo on my part they mentioned on a help page that the servers address is mail.bellsouth.net so that is what i used for both the only strange thing is i can receive but can't send all i get is a error message saying i am missing a domain for some reason or the other is there any way of correcting this problem?

I too am a Bellsouth customer. The correct construct of the mail server is, as far as I know, "mail.<locality>.bellsouth.net". The locality part describes a city, or area, coding system unique to Bellsouth's server set up.

I would just give them a call and make sure of the coding for the mail server name. They don't care what OS you're running for dial-up, at least around here. Like anyone else, their helpdesk folks are typically M$-centric, but that's just the nature of the beast. Just translate their instructions to the actual fields that show on the KDE setup input.

Or you can always use SENDMAIL, of couse this is not really "the" fix for your problem, but rather "A" fix.

I am having the same problem with Bellsouth. How did you ever resolve it?