K Mail

[chet2nd]

I'm trying to set up Kontact K-mail, in the account set up screen it asks for HOST, what is that and how do I obtain it?

[Fintan]

Re: K Mail

Your Internet provider (host) will have given you some details on how to setup your email account.
Usually it will read something like pop.something.something

So in kmail and for host you put your mailserver address. say if you have a pop account you would write something like either:
pop.youremailserver
mail.youremailserver
or
youremailserver

So if your emailaddress is : chet2nd@xxyyzz.com then youremailserver is xxyyzz.com.

The same applies to your outgoing server=smtp.xxyyzz.com (or whatever your hosting service defines for that.)

Hope that helps

Cheers
Fintan

[Ant2ne]

Re: K Mail

is it possible to configure kmail for web based e-mail such as yahoo? Including my school e-mail account I have 3 accounts it'd be cool to have them all download to the same window. It'd make it alot easier to check too.

[mchuskie]

Re: K Mail

Search on Yahoo! Mail help, it's perfectly possible, but you need to change a setting through the webmail client.

[Snowhog]

Re: K Mail

KMail | Settings | Configure KMail | Accounts | Add

As long as the additional accounts you wish to add are one of the listed types, it should be as simple as that. In almost any decent email client, you can have multiple 'incoming' accounts, but only 'one' outgoing account.

[Fintan]

Re: K Mail

In that case try thunderbird.
multiple accounts and more.

[eriefisher]

Re: K Mail

I use Kmail/Kontact with 4 accounts w/seperate inboxes. I have also used Thunderbird with these account but prefer Kontact.

[Fintan]

Re: K Mail

@eriefisher:
How did you set that up without filtering, etc.?

[kubicle]

Re: K Mail

How did you set that up without filtering, etc.?

Multiple POP and SMTP Accounts in kmail:

Creating Accounts:
POP: Configure KMail>Accounts>Receiving-tab>Add
SMTP: Configure KMail>Accounts>Sending-tab>Add

Separate inboxes for pop accounts:
Configure KMail>Accounts>Receiving-tab>Modify>Destination folder

Separate SMTP settings (+ separate sent/draft/template folders etc.):
Configure KMail>Identities>Modify>Advanced-tab>Special Transport

[Fintan]

Re: K Mail

Thanks i always had to user filters. Now for my big question:
Lets say I have a /data partition formated in fat32 and would like to setup a kontact folder with my mails, kontacts, kalender, setups, configs, etc. so it can be read from Kontact on my feisty, gutsy, pclinux installs?

In TB I can set my "setup" or local folder from say /home/suername/thunderbird/whatever to /data/email/emailaccount.

[kubicle]

Re: K Mail

Thanks i always had to user filters. Now for my big question:
Lets say I have a /data partition formated in fat32 and would like to setup a kontact folder with my mails, kontacts, kalender, setups, configs, etc. so it can be read from Kontact on my feisty, gutsy, pclinux installs?

In TB I can set my "setup" or local folder from say /home/suername/thunderbird/whatever to /data/email/emailaccount.

Haven't done it, but editing ~/.kde/share/config/kmailrc
[General]
folders=$HOME/.kde/share/apps/kmail/mail

to something like
folders=/data/mail

should do it...I think