Setting up your Account
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
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 to close this dialog, and then click on the Receiving tab.
To set up an account so you can receive mail, press the 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 ->.
