[SOLVED] KMail won't send mail.

flamelord · 07-05-2011, 11:37 PM

Hi, I am using KMail 1.13.7, and receiving mail works fine, but sending mail via SMTP through Gmail doesn't work. When I try to send email it give me "Transport 'Gmail.com' is invalid". I have tried deleting the account and recreating it to no avail, and I even tried changing smtp.gmail.com to smtp.googlemail.com, with the exact same error. Any ideas?

jdkaye · 07-06-2011, 12:37 AM

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Originally Posted by flamelord

Hi, I am using KMail 1.13.7, and receiving mail works fine, but sending mail via SMTP through Gmail doesn't work. When I try to send email it give me "Transport 'Gmail.com' is invalid". I have tried deleting the account and recreating it to no avail, and I even tried changing smtp.gmail.com to smtp.googlemail.com, with the exact same error. Any ideas?

Sorry, it's not clear from your post what server you're using for smtp. Have you configured kmail to use smtp.gmail.com? or are you using some other smtp server?
ciao,
jdk

JZL240I-U · 07-06-2011, 04:28 AM

Umm, I'm fairly new to this. smpt uses per default port 587, so you'd better find out if google uses that or a different port. If so, change your "Transport" to smtp.gmail.com:587. Or did you just omit that?

flamelord · 07-06-2011, 07:18 PM

yes I am using smtp.gmail.com with port 465, which is what it gives me when I click auto-detect.

frankbell · 07-06-2011, 10:24 PM

This is from the Google Gmail help:

http://mail.google.com/support/bin/a...y?answer=13287

Usually, when I have problems setting up a new mail account AND when I know the server names are correct, it turns out to be something to do with the SMTP authentication settings in my mail client.

flamelord · 07-07-2011, 09:19 PM

I upgraded to Kmail 2, and completely reconfigured everything and it works now.