On Wed, 17 Mar 2004 06:48 pm, many eyes viewed Chuck Mattsen's words:-
> Okay, please bear with me; I seem to be having one of my stupid days ...
>
> :-\
>
> So, I found and installed Kmail, looked around, and decided it just
> might meet my needs better than Evolution has.  Fine.
>
> I'm receiving mail just fine, filtering it, blah, blah, blah, blah ...
> however, I just went to send a message and I get errors.  (See below)
>
> I know this isn't rocket science, and I've successfully set up a
> multitude of e-mail clients for SMTP before, but for some reason this is
> just escaping me.
>
> With every attempted send, I get:
>
>       Sending failed:
>       Unknown error Unexpected server response to EHLO command. The   server
> responded: "Unknown command"
>       The message will stay in the 'outbox' folder until you either   fix the
> problem (e.g. a broken address) or remove the message         from the 'outbox'
> folder.
>       The following transport protocol was used:
>
> and that's it.  I'm just using my standard smtp address for my ISP's
> server (and have double- and triple-checked for spelling errors there),
> and the server doesn't require any special log-in procedure of which I'm
> aware (didn't set any up when I was in Evolution), so I'm just at a loss
> as to what stupid thing I may be overlooking, or if there's some quirky
> setting in Kmail that I'm just not seeing.
>
> Any ideas as to what I'm glossing over?  (And, since you will
> theoretically shortly be receiving this via a send from Evolution, I
> think we can rule out server difficulties...)
>
> TIA ...

You're connected to one server and sending through the wrong identity. Make 
the other identity default and then send and all will be well in:- 
KMail>>>>>Settings/Configure KMail/Network

Charlie

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