I just installed KDE 4.6 beta 2 and Kmail will neither send or receive emails. No error messages; it just sits there. How do I troubleshoot this?

Okay, I got it receiving emails by deleting the pop account and starting over. I did the same thing to the smtp account but no change; emails just sit there forever in the outbox.

Another thing... even though I got email retreival to work, it's prompting for my password every time. It won't let me enter anything in the password field for receiving messages... this thing isn't going to force me to use Kwallet, is it?

The usually means that you don't have a pinentry app installed. Depending on distro preferences it may be pinentry-qt or pinentry-qt4.

I have pinentry 0.8.0

Just to make sure I'm being clear... it's in the settings dialog where I input my account information that I am unable to input a password. the password field exists, but it won't let me put a cursor in it or type anything. When the little popups appear I can input my password just fine. But I don't want to enter my password every time I check my mail...

Another neat little issue... kmail is no longer displaying the number of unread e-mails on the icon in the system tray.

I still haven't been able to send e-mails at all. No error messages... stuff I tried to send this morning is still sitting in the outbox.

Last time I heard, Akonadi does require the usage of KWallet to securely store passwords. If you don't particularly like KWallet, I suggest you simply set a blank password, and it will remain entirely invisible to you.

bcooksley wrote:Last time I heard, Akonadi does require the usage of KWallet to securely store passwords. If you don't particularly like KWallet, I suggest you simply set a blank password, and it will remain entirely invisible to you.

How do I do that? Clearly the procedure is different in the new Kmail.

KWallet can be configured from System Settings > Account Details > KDE Wallet. Once enabled, KMail should be able to save it's password into KWallet normally, thus allowing the field in KMail settings to be enabled.

Okay, that appears to have worked. Thank you. Can anyone comment on my inability to send e-mail?

Please close all Akonadi using applications, then run "akonadictl stop" and "akonadictl start" in Konsole. Then start KMail as usual. Note that the simple act of restarting Akonadi may cause it to start sending email, so make sure any duplicates you have queued are removed prior to stopping Akonadi.

Also, open the SMTP server settings and verify the authentication.

Retarted akonadi as per instructions; no change. Here's the terminal output:

akonadi_mixedmaildir_resource_0(3236)/akonadiresource (maildir): "Cannot add emails to folder outbox" FolderType= 0
akonadi_mixedmaildir_resource_0(3236)/akonadiresource (maildir): "Cannot add emails to folder outbox"

It says it can't add emails to the outbox, but they are in the outbox... they're just not getting past that point. BTW, I know another person with KDE 4.6 beta 2 installed who is having the same prob. I'm having some other PIM issues as well, but I'll deal with them once this mail prob gets sorted.

don't know if related, but starting kmail from console you can see this in the output when you try to send mail

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kmail2(2327)/kdepimlibs (mailtransport) MailTransport::DispatchManualTransportAction::itemAccepted: Item doesn't have DispatchModeAttribute.
kmail2(2327)/kdepimlibs (mailtransport) MailTransport::DispatchManualTransportAction::itemAccepted: Item doesn't have DispatchModeAttribute.


slackware64-current and kde-4.5.86 (akonadi from git).

I forgot to mention earlier that creating a new user did not improve the situation.

BTW, if i must use Kwallet is there any way to stop it from demanding my password on every login?

this solution proposed by y0g1 make mails go out