Sending plain text email with Acer One Mail

[mward]

Is it possible to turn off HTML and send plain text email messages with the Acer One mail client?

Failing that, can Kmail be installed instead?

 

[Huw]

I'm not sure about Acer One Mail since I have never used it, but with regard to Kmail - I would think twice before downloading it because it would probably require a massive load of KDE libs as well, which would make for a huge download. Do you have the space?

 

[mward]

I downloaded and installed kmail (the rpm is kdepim): which required about half a dozen extra RPMs, but nothing too massive. Kmail can receive email (via imap in my case), but not send mail by any method (sendmail or smtp to a mail server). Clicking on "Check What the Server Supports" under the security tab of the "Transport SMTP" gives the error message:

Could not read .

Which suggests that some directory (the "." in the message might be a reference to the current directory) or file (the "." might be a full stop after an empty filename) is not installed or does not have the required permissions.

I ended up installing thunderbird, which works fine.

 

[tjchick]

Hi,

I strongly dislike Thunderbird, and sylpeed kept on locking up for me, so I moved to trying kmail (which is what I use on all my "real" computers)

I too could receive but not send. The problem was the missing library:
/usr/lib/kde3/kio_smtp.so

There is a missing dependency on this for the kdepim package. This library comes from
kdebase-3.5.8-5.fc8

I just yum installed kdebase, BUT that is pretty massive, so you could try putting just that library in?

I also found the authentication mechanisms were not installed, for things other than plan text, eg:

cyrus-sasl-ldap-2.1.22-7
cyrus-sasl-lib-2.1.22-7
cyrus-sasl-md5-2.1.22-7
cyrus-sasl-ntlm-2.1.22-7
cyrus-sasl-2.1.22-7
cyrus-sasl-plain-2.1.22-7
cyrus-sasl-gssapi-2.1.22-7

Now I am very happily using kmail!

Cheers,
Tim