KMail intermittently fails to send

[Björn Persson]

Tim Littlemore wrote:

> I have had a problem for quite a while with KMail where sometimes messages do 
> not send properly.
> 
> The error message that appears when this happens isn't particularly helpful, 
> it just says:
> 
> The server responded: ""
> 
> I have access to the logs of the mailserver that is being used, and I can see 
> that sometimes, even though the messages don't look like they have been sent, 
> I can see entries in the maillog of the messages going. KMail seems to think 
> that they haven't gone though, and they stay in the outbox.
> 
> However, sometimes I get the message, and when I check the maillog, the 
> message HAS NOT gone.

I had a similar problem develop in Redhat 7.2. I don't think the 
symptoms were exactly the same. It seemed to disappear when I upgraded 
to Fedora.

Björn Persson