On Friday 18 July 2003 04:38 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: > > I have some folders set up to use specific accounts, but my default > 'From' is this one. For some strange reason I keep finding that mail > fails to go out because it has used the local account instead of this > one. I have checked the settings and the default settings haven't > been changed. Anyone have any ideas what's happening? External mail > just doesn't go out when it just comes from 'anne' <g>
I'll try to help, with two caveats: I'm not a regular Kmail user (actually, I just set it up to see what you may see ... it's not half bad these days <g>), and also I'm running 9.0 w/ KDE 3.05a, so what you see may differ somewhat from what I describe anyway. But throwing caution to the wind, and taking the whole procedure as if it were being done from scratch (for clarity's sake), here goes nothing ... ;) With this incarnation of Kmail, at least, what you want to do is to first create a second "Sending" account (Settings -> Configure Kmail -> Network -> Sending -> Add); make it of type "SMTP", give it a name like "LocalSMTP", and make the host "localhost". OK your way out, and ensure that the previously-existing Sending account - the one which points to your ISP's SMTP server - is still marked as "(Default)"; if not, move it up until it is. Next, you want to create a new and separate identity (Settings -> Configure Kmail -> Identity -> New) by duplicating the settings from your "Default" identity, then changing the email address (General tab) to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" (or to anne@ the FQDN, whichever). You then move over to the "Advanced" tab, check the "Special Transport" box, and select "LocalSMTP" from the two choices now appearing there . This new identity can have any name you like, but pick something other than "LocalSMTP", to avoid any confusion later on (just "Local" is fine here; we'll postulate that for now). Henceforth, any messages you send using the "Default" identity should use the SMTP server defined as the "(Default)" under Network -> Sending (your ISP's), and any messages sent under the "Local" identity will use the "LocalSMTP" setting (your local Postfix server). To be absolutely sure that there is no mix-up in this regard, you can go to the Identity section of the settings window, "Default" identity, "Advanced" tab, and explicitly set the "Special transport" for /that/ identity to the name of the one that points to your ISP's server. Then there should be no mistake as to which mail goes out via which server in the future. You then associate individual folders with the identity you wish to use when posting from them, by right=clicking on each name in the folder list and selecting "Properties", then setting that folder's preferred identity from the drop-down list. >From my few minutes of experimentation, it appears that when starting a new message, it will default to using whichever identity is set for the folder you currently have open. This bears watching, because if you are in a folder which is set to use the "Local" identity, and wish to create a wholly new message (say, a post to this list), it will try to use the "Local" identity due to where you're sitting when you start the process, when you'd really rather it use the "Default" one this time. You'll need to switch identities (above the "To:" box) before sending that mail. Perhaps this last bit is at the root of the current crop of misdirected mails. Postfix can be told to send these out via your ISP's SMTP server, but you probably don't want that, as the "From:" address on them may be wrong. Best to just resend those, by going into your "sent-mail" folder, right-clicking on each, choosing "Redirect", and adjusting the identity on them to the one you want to use before hitting "Send". Postfix will give up trying to send the copies that it got after five days (and will tell you so when it does). To see just which messages Postfix is trying and failing to send, type "mailq" at a prompt; it should show you enough to determine which ones they are. HTH! -- Bill Mullen [EMAIL PROTECTED] MA, USA RLU #270075 MDK 8.1 & 9.0 "In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move." - Douglas Adams
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