Yahoo and Kmail

[Roger Oberholtzer]

I gave up on kmail for this reason. There is a bit of info on the KDE Kmail
site about this. It seems there are a number of ways this authentication
works.

This is what the KMAil FAQ states:

	6.18 My SMTP server requires authentication. Does KMail support it?

 	     There are two common techniques used for SMTP authentication:
		"SMTP after POP3" and "SMTP Auth". "SMTP Auth" is currently not
		supported. To use "SMTP after POP3" you have to collect all your
		mails in the outbox and send them just after you have fetched new
		mail.

I don't know which Yahoo uses. Perhaps you could try the "SMTP after POP3"
method.

I just know that my mail server at home does not wotk with kmail...


On Sun, 10 Mar 2002 10:20:02 -0800 (PST)
Net Llama <beemer9 at yahoo.com> wrote:

> That's not really a solution to the problem.  FOr starters, most people
> using Yahoo-mail, aren't using Sendmail as their MTA, they're using
> Yahoo-mail as their MTA.
> 
> --- Gerry Doris <gerry at dorfam.ca> wrote:
> > Follow the instructions in this url.  It assumes you're using sendmail
> > as
> > your mta.
> > 
> > 
> > http://sdb.suse.de/en/sdb/html/sendmail_smtp_auth.html
> > 
> > 
> > Gerry
> > 
> > > Yahoo have changed their smtp so that it must be 'authenticated'. I
> > am
> > > able to send via Netscape, but Kmail falls over with a reject
> > response
> > > (from yahoo).
> > >
> > > The blurb on the Yahoo site gives an example for Outlook (Express)
> > > <sigh> and says to click the 'server requires authentication box'.
> > This
> > > is not selectable under netscape mail composer (works anyway) but
> > Kmail
> > > just will not send correctly?
> > >
> > > Anyone have a fix for this?
> 
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