Hi everyone,

I'd like to try replacing Icedove (Debian's version of Thunderbird) by Kmail, but I'm unable to send and receive email in my university network where I have to use a proxy server to connect to the internet. Icedove works fine when I specify the proxy in its network settings. Other KDE programs such as Akregator can also connect to the internet if I set KDE's network settings to "recognize proxy settings automatically" (the exact words are probably slightly different since my system is in German). I think the reason why Kmail does not work is that it requires a SOCKS proxy. In older versions of KDE there was no way to specify a SOCKS proxy in System Settings and people had to use external programs like proxychains (see this 3-year-old thread: https://forum.kde.org/viewtopic.php?f=18&t=97499&p=206286&hilit=kmail+proxy#p206286 and this entry in the KDE UserBase: https://userbase.kde.org/Kontact#Enabling_SOCKS_support_in_KMail_and_KNode). New versions of KDE do have a field for SOCKS in the proxy settings, but even if I use the option "Set proxy settings manually" and enter the same proxy domain and port that I use in Icedove, I can't get Kmail to send and receive email.

Am I missing something? Do I still need to use an additional program such as proxychains? I tried it once a while ago, but couldn't get it to work, probably because I mis-specified something in its configuration file.

I'm using Debian Jessie with KDE 4.14.2. If you need other information about my system, please ask.

is this an imap mail server you're trying to connect to? if so I found an unconfirmed bug report https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=335977

and here's a older report regarding Konversation https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=252500

Yes, it is. I have three email accounts, all of them using imap servers. Thanks for pointing me to the bug reports.

you may need to retry proxychains

things KDE'ish you can do:
- confirm the bug report
- try asking on the kdepim-users mailing list

Ok, I confirmed the bug report. I think I will keep using Icedove for now and maybe try proxychains again when I have a bit of time.