On Sun, Oct 03, 2004 at 04:04:29PM +0200, Finn-Arne Johansen wrote: > On Sun, Oct 03, 2004 at 11:30:34AM +0200, Ralf Gesel|ensetter wrote: > > Am Freitag, 1. Oktober 2004 14:49 schrieb Ralf Gesel|ensetter: > > > - double check > > > > Hi, now it is myself again replying. Together with Patrick W., we checked > > the > > setup again. As a matter of fact, kmail is not preconfigured (apart from > > the > > user name in identity). After some trials, we managed to get imap running > > this time with kmail (SSL must be activated). > > > > Fetching mail through POP3 eventually failed - and apparently there is not > > even a pop3 deamon installed. After some discussions we agreed, that it is > > virtually not necessary to have a pop3 service, as the mail can be read by > > imap as well (they stay on the server either case). Only for teaching > > reasons, pop3 should be available. > > pop3 should be dead, long live imap :) > > > Alas, we didn't copy the working settings from kmailrc. This has to be done > > in > > order to prepare some /etc/skel/..../kmailrc to be working out of the box. > > Problem is that you have to set up the username as well, and this > changes for each user. The same with password. Will it work to provide > all the other things, and will the username then be set automagically. > I guess we could spend some hours to test this as well, but obviously, > noone has cared. so please do, and if you find a working kmailrc for > /etc/skel, then include this, and tell us through the changelog.
See bug #550 and my tries to get this working in CVS. I suppose we could wait for KDE 3 to fix this easier and better. See the bug comments. MVH Marius K
