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narilia

Beginner

Posts: 3

Wednesday, November 12th 2003, 8:31pm

Kmail Help!

If I am posting this in the wrong forum, I do apologise. Just tell me where it should go and I shall post in the correct forward.

I am having some difficulties with email. I have two email addresses that I would like to keep completely seperate. Each address requires a lot of folders. When I had an older version of KDE, I could run multiple sessions of kmail at the same time if I used a terminal to log in to a different username.

IE, username1 and username 2. I start my kde under username one then user a terminal to log in to 2. I could start kmail with email1's info regularly and then start kmail2 with email2's info via the terminal.

I hope that makes sense.

Anyway, since I upgraded KDE, I have been unable to do this and have been trying to find another program that would let me run it and kmail at the same time. However, most programs put carots or some sort of quote text when I reply which I do NOT want and most will not CC my own email address when I am replying.

Anyway, the point of this question is: Is there anyway to get KMail to allow me to run multiple sessions at once? I'm tired of switching between virtual desktops!!!

Thanks for any and all help!

Amanda

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tom

Beginner

Posts: 26

Location: Darmstadt, Germany

Wednesday, November 12th 2003, 10:12pm

Why usimg multiple kmail sessions? With kmail you can handle as much different identities as you want. You can also define filter actions to sort your mail into different mailboxes.
That's it. So, there is no need to run multiple sessions of kmail.

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seb

Professional

Posts: 622

Location: Sydney

Occupation: Student

Wednesday, November 12th 2003, 10:31pm

like tom replied, you dont need to run different instances of the same program. It would be much wiser to use one instance - this saves you system resources as well as the hassle of using and maintaining two different config files.

In Kmail, do the following ->

settings >> Configure Kmail >> Identities

Set up all the different email addresses which you use as seperate identities.

Now, if you use different servers for each Email address, you will also need seperate recieving and sending profiles. Click on the Network Tab. Now add your details to a new Configuration. In the recieving dialogue, you can filter all mail which comes in through that protocol by clicking on the drop down box titled "Destination Folder".

Remember that these folders must exist to be selected.
Additionally, to send different emails to different folders, you will have to make sub-folders and configure the filters through settings for each of the folders.

hth

Seb

http://www.sebruiz.net/
http://amarok.kde.org

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narilia

Beginner

Posts: 3

Thursday, November 13th 2003, 10:45pm

I am quite aware of the ability to do identities. However, I prefer to have separate sessions. Believe it or not, it is easier for me to keep track of things that way.

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cmbofh

Intermediate

Posts: 539

Friday, November 14th 2003, 6:24am

Re: Kmail Help!

Quoted

Original von narilia

...
When I had an older version of KDE, I could run multiple sessions of kmail at the same time if I used a terminal to log in to a different username.
...
Anyway, since I upgraded KDE, I have been unable to do this
...

What do you get if you try?

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narilia

Beginner

Posts: 3

Saturday, November 15th 2003, 1:03am

Message

I get the following message:

sh: line 1: iceauth: command not found
DCOPClient::attachInternal. Attach failed Authentication Rejected, reason : None of the authentication protocols specified are supported and host-based authentication failed
ICE Connection rejected!

DCOPClient::attachInternal. Attach failed Authentication Rejected, reason : None of the authentication protocols specified are supported and host-based authentication failed
DCOPServer self-test failed.
ICE Connection rejected!

sh: line 1: iceauth: command not found
kdeinit: DCOPServer could not be started, aborting.
ERROR: KUniqueApplication: Can't setup DCOP communication.

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cmbofh

Intermediate

Posts: 539

Saturday, November 15th 2003, 7:54am

Re: Message

Quoted

Original von narilia

I get the following message:
sh: line 1: iceauth: command not found

It cannot find the iceauth program and as a
result the DCOP server cannot be started.

You can try the following:

1) Short test:
To make sure that your config files are read use
su - your_second_user_name
instead of
su your_second_user_name
and try again (if you haven't done so.).
Does it work now?

2) Find the iceauth program and add its path to the
PATH variable of the second account:
In your first account say:
which iceauth

Quoted

on my system this gives:
> which iceauth
/usr/X11R6/bin/iceauth

Add the path to the PATH variable of the second account.
In my case it would be /usr/X11R6/bin

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