mail mystery

[Net Llama!]

On Tue, 20 Feb 2007, Tim Wunder wrote:
> On Tuesday 20 February 2007 4:51:36 pm dep wrote:
>> said Net Llama!:
>> | Youv'e provided basically no information other than to state that
>> | *something* is failing.  Are you getting an error message?  If so,
>> | what it is?
>>
>> that's the problem -- all i know is that something is failing. it just
>> times out, kmail throws its usual and misleading "no connection" error
>> (which it throws no matter what the problem is, unless it's a rejected
>> password).
>>
>> hence my question as to diagnostics i might perform that might help
>> isolate the issue.
>
> Have you trieed running kmail from the command line to see if anything helpful
> spews forth?

Or using some other mail client to see if the problem is specific to 
KMail?

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