[Klug-general] Baffled by Kubuntu networking

[Mike Rentell]

Blake,

Whichever emailer you are using, presumably the one which comes with 
Gnome, there must be a setup panel somewhere. In Thunderbird it is not 
obvious because once you have set up the incoming and outgoing servers 
nothing else seems to be needed. But when you use it for the first time 
it flashes up a password panel and asks if that is to be used forever more.

The username you put into that must be the same as Virgin gave you. From 
your email address I surmise that to be ottawa-can

The password does need to be used and that should be the password given 
to you by Virgin media - for instance mine begins with a single 
lowercase letter followed by a nine digit number.

The incoming server name for me is pop.ntlworld.com and the outgoing 
server is smtp.ntlworld.com (I said I'd been on cable for some years).

Incidentally if you want to use the news server, then all your news 
client needs is the server name news.virginmedia.com. Do not be tempted 
to add a password. It doesn't need it and putting one in kills it dead.

Works for me. I'm not used to giving advice to the group. Normally I'm 
here asking idiot questions - qv yesternight.

MikeR


Blake wrote:
> Mike,
> 
> I have just changed to Virgin and cannot get my email to work at all. I 
> am using Ubuntu. Any suggestions.
> 
> Sorry I do not use Kubuntu and cannot help you there.
> 
> Blake
>