Yesterday, at 9:30AM, the Allo tech dropped in and installed the fiber optic cable/wifi modem and a 120 channel TV option, which was free because of the rental contract where we live. I browsed all 120 channels and didn't see anything I hadn't already seen in years past when I had a cable TV connection.
I then resumed the task of visiting the 70 or so websites I am logged into and changing my Spectrum email address to my new Allo email address. I did this while I still had access to my Spectrum account. I used Allo's webmail page to respond to verification requests.
This morning it was time to set up my Allo email account in KMail. The POP3 server was a snap and I easily download test emails sent from the webmail, but the smtp portion refused to send up any test mails. At 5:30PM I had a tech from Allo call on my support ticket and he gave me the exact settings for both POP3 and SMTP. My settings were right. There are several web pages tht describe the problem of KMail refusing to send up emails and not give any error msgs. Most involved using akonadicontrol and digging deep into the bowels of KMail and Akonadi. This is the FIRST time I was unable to complete the account setup in KMail, after using it for most of the 19 years I've been using Linux. The only part of the PIM package that I used was KMail. The rest, to me, was just excess detritus. It looks like all of the PIM package is going to get uninstalled.
Having spent most of the day putzing with KMail I decided it was time to look at alternatives. Claws and Sylpheed appealed to me the most and I decided to try Sylpheed first because it was written in C, was very fast, and had a good track record at autoconfiguration with a minimal of information.
I installed it from Neon's repository and fired it up. It took me to the configuration dialog the very first thing. It asked for my display name, my email address and my POP3 and SMTP server URLs, and my email password. Mouse Down event ... Boom! done ... Mouse Up event. From install to completion of the setting up the email account was less than 2 minutes.
Saying Sylpheed is FAST is an understatement. And, one must add "Easy" to "Fast".
Part is the speed is my 100Mb fiber optic connection, but I've never had an email client download email so fast. Even KMail was a tortoise on the 100Mb connection. Importing the CVS Address book file from KMail was lightening fast as well.
Sylpheed is a nice email client. I may play with Claws and Evolution as well, just to compare.
I then resumed the task of visiting the 70 or so websites I am logged into and changing my Spectrum email address to my new Allo email address. I did this while I still had access to my Spectrum account. I used Allo's webmail page to respond to verification requests.
This morning it was time to set up my Allo email account in KMail. The POP3 server was a snap and I easily download test emails sent from the webmail, but the smtp portion refused to send up any test mails. At 5:30PM I had a tech from Allo call on my support ticket and he gave me the exact settings for both POP3 and SMTP. My settings were right. There are several web pages tht describe the problem of KMail refusing to send up emails and not give any error msgs. Most involved using akonadicontrol and digging deep into the bowels of KMail and Akonadi. This is the FIRST time I was unable to complete the account setup in KMail, after using it for most of the 19 years I've been using Linux. The only part of the PIM package that I used was KMail. The rest, to me, was just excess detritus. It looks like all of the PIM package is going to get uninstalled.
Having spent most of the day putzing with KMail I decided it was time to look at alternatives. Claws and Sylpheed appealed to me the most and I decided to try Sylpheed first because it was written in C, was very fast, and had a good track record at autoconfiguration with a minimal of information.
I installed it from Neon's repository and fired it up. It took me to the configuration dialog the very first thing. It asked for my display name, my email address and my POP3 and SMTP server URLs, and my email password. Mouse Down event ... Boom! done ... Mouse Up event. From install to completion of the setting up the email account was less than 2 minutes.
Saying Sylpheed is FAST is an understatement. And, one must add "Easy" to "Fast".
Part is the speed is my 100Mb fiber optic connection, but I've never had an email client download email so fast. Even KMail was a tortoise on the 100Mb connection. Importing the CVS Address book file from KMail was lightening fast as well.
Sylpheed is a nice email client. I may play with Claws and Evolution as well, just to compare.
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