Click on the
Network
icon to move to the
network configuration page. It contains the settings that
tell KMail how to send and receive your email messages. You will see
two tabs on the right-hand side:
Sending
and
Receiving
. You need to set up both, so let us look
at them each in turn:
The
Sending
tab provides a list of
ways to send messages. The first item in the list is the default
way to send messages. Using the
Add...
button you can choose between two different ways of sending messages:
SMTP
and
Sendmail
.
sendmail� here
means a local software installation — this has a
reputation of being difficult to set up, so if you do not already have a
working
sendmail� configuration, choose
SMTP
and fill in the
Name
field with a descriptive name
(e.g.
My Mail Account
)
and the
Host
field with the name and domain of your mail server
(e.g.
smtp.provider.com
). You will probably
not need to change the
Port
setting (the default is
25
).
A description of the other options can be found
in the full KMail manual. Click on
OK
to
close this dialog, and then click on the
Receiving
tab.
To set up an account so you can receive mail, press the
Add...
button in the
Receiving
tab. You will then be prompted for the
type of your email account; most users should select
POP3
or
IMAP
. If you wish to
use a different system, consult the KMail manual.
You will then be presented with
the
Add account
window. First, fill in the
Name
field to name your account. You can choose any name
you like.
Login
,
Password
, and
Host
should be filled in with the information you
gathered earlier. You should not usually need to change the
Port
setting.
You are now ready to send and receive mail. For
IMAP, just open your folders in the
folder tree in KMail's main window. KMail then connects to your
server and displays the messages it finds. For POP3 use
->
.
