[Wolves] Kmail, imap and Gmail

[Dave Morley]

On Mon, 2008-05-19 at 09:56 +0100, ArchLinuxUser dick_turpin wrote:
> 2008/5/19 Stuart Langridge <sil at kryogenix.org>:
> 
> > I successfully set up imap in KMail. That wasn't the problem. The
> > problem was that I couldn't set up KMail to *send* mail through
> > GMail's smtp server. Again, I'm quite sure that it's capable of it, I
> > just couldn't get it to work. Feel free to (a) say that I'm stupid and
> > therefore that (b) KMail is not a suitable client for stupid people
> > and Evolution is, if you choose.
> 
> Na you're down enough as it is and its illegal to kick dumb animals :-P
> 
> I can send (I think) I sent a test mail supposedly from dick_turpin to
> highwayman.turpin the only glitch I had was Kmail went into a tissy
> fit trying to download the 2 Billion emails in my
> dick_turpin at archlinux account which leads me to another thought that
> imap might be pants.
> 
> If you have limited storage capacity on you're HDD imap'ing to your
> Gmail account is just stupid especially as the storage from Google is
> free'mans
> 

Aq are you trying to send from the right port?  It should be 443 if
memory serves.  But if you go into settings on the gmail web interface
then onto pop/imap you can check by looking at the port settings for any
of the clients
-- 
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