Kmail. I can recieve fine, but sent stuff does not arrive

duffboygrim · 01-09-2004, 04:51 PM

Evening all....

I've configured Kmail to send and recieve from my various emails. Problem is I am recieving fine, but when I send messages they never reach their destinations even though kmail says they have been sent. I know this cos I've tried emailing my mates in work and they haven't got stuff off me.

My settings are fine from what I can see. ie....

The host is correct
the port is correct for SMPT (port 25)
My authentication is fine.

Any ideas here guys?

mooreted · 01-09-2004, 06:21 PM

This might actually be a problem with your ISPs server. You might call them and see.

Good Luck,
Ted.

nightjar · 01-09-2004, 06:25 PM

Have u many emails accounts?
Is the outgoing server only one? Or u set up each account with each server ?
In your linux box, have you installed sendmail or postfix?
U can probe with one of its

rberry88 · 01-09-2004, 06:27 PM

Actually it is SMTP and your ISP might require authentication for it. Usually for most ISP's if you go to their website and to the member support area it should give instructions on how to set it up for something like Outlook Express, you can copy down the settings and they should be similar in Kmail.

I have Comcast cable modem so I just set the mail server to mail.comcast.net and the SMTP server to SMTP.comcast.net and it works fine.

rberry88

nightjar · 01-09-2004, 08:12 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by rberry88
Actually it is SMTP and your ISP might require authentication for it.
rberry88

It's not the point because he said that kmail send the email but its don't reachs the recipients
Outgoing server may be blocked by the recipients server but we dont know how both kmail and the accounts are configured

rberry88 · 01-10-2004, 09:09 AM

Well if you know the e-mails are leaving you and just not being recieved then it most likely is a problem with the recieving parties setup. You could always make a message for a return reciept when read to see if it actually gets delivered. Maybe the person you are sending to has a strong spam filter that isn't letting your messages through.

There are too many variables as to why someone isn't receiving e-mails but I didn't think that was what we were helping him/her with. I understood the question he was asking was about the settings of his own Kmail setup. He/she had spelled SMTP correctly and if he entered it in Kmail the same wrong way it could give him more problems than the obvious so I was making sure his setup was right first.

rberry88