Re: Can't send email, Part 2

On Friday, 10 September 2021 09:35:30 BST Henk van Velden wrote:
> On Friday, 10 September 2021 10:24:31 CEST Ianseeks wrote:
> > On Thursday, 9 September 2021 18:01:21 BST John White wrote:
> > > I have a new problem.  When I try to send an email (P0P-3), the screen
> > > goes
> > > white.  I can still see the email, but it is blurred.  I cannot save the
> > > email, but must disregard.
> > > 
> > > This problem exists whether I am using [email protected] (my local
> > > internet
> > > service provider) or [email protected] which goes through
> > > siteground.
> > > 
> > > And, if I reboot, kmail will send the first email just find but screen
> > > goes
> > > white when I try to send later emails.
> > > 
> > > My secretary's email is working fine (she uses same kmail as do I).
> > > 
> > > For example, I had to reboot in order to send this email.
> > > 
> > > Debian Buster
> > > kmail 5.9.3
> > > 
> > > Any suggestions?
> > 
> > All i could suggest is to move away from POP, i did and i don't have any
> > weird issues now.
> > > John
> 
> I do not not quite understand this. Sending e-mail has nothing to do with POP 
> (or POP3). That is only used for receiving e-mail. Sending uses SMTP.
i had lots of unexplained errors with sending/receiving and kmail in general etc when using POP. Maybe the change from mysql to postgres
made it reliable rather than moving away from POP but all i can say is i've been a happy kmail user for a few years now.


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