On Friday, November 07, 2025 08:37:18 AM Anssi Saari wrote: > [email protected] writes: > > Has anybody here had trouble making kmail work on Trixie? > > I just tried, I've upgraded my laptop to Trixie but I rarely send email > from it. Answer was yes, at first. My "Sending" settings were out of > date but adding current settings and setting that as default didn't > help. Maybe there was some account setting hidden somewhere trying to > use old settings, probably in identity settings. Error message didn't > help either, it just said bad credentials, not what it had tried and > where... > > Removing all the other outgoing settings fixed sending. > > Sent and Trash folders needed a little updating too.
Thanks for the reply (and to all who replied) -- my installation was a fresh install so there should not have been bad credentials (and I did not see such a message). There was some confusion (to me) about some of the credentials -- notably my old computers (Wheezy and Jessie) use port 587 for smtp, Trixie tried to use a different port (was it 465?) -- iirc, I tried both. Also, it is somewhat confusing in that the various terms l(like ssl or tsl seem to be used in different ways in each version of kmail (or at least the ones I've used), but I tried a few variations (besides the ones that kmail suggested) and only one time did an email get sent. (And I forget what I did at that time, if it had anything to do with variations in those settigs.) For now I'll stick with Thunderbird, when I get up some ambition I might try to install Balsa or Kmail again). The dependence on Akonadi bothers me, along with suggestions I've seen on the order of purge and reinstall Akonadi -- that sounds like the traditional Microsoft reboot advice (and not very reassuring) -- e.g., will I lose emails when I do that? If that works, how often will I have to do that. I will pay attention to any further replies. Thanks!
