Kmail and SMTP authentication

[Giles Orr]

On 6/10/06, bob <ican-rZHaEmXdJNJWk0Htik3J/w at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> My system has been "telling me" for a while now that it is time to upgrade.
> I guess my provider has provided the final push.
>
> As a developer/researcher you just accumulate so much stuff under the everyday system that I dread the upgrade process.

I've learned after years of using Linux that having a couple of spare
partitions lying around never hurts.  Not that this helps you much if
you don't have a spare partition, but if you do or are willing to buy
an additional hard drive for your system, this will work.  Install
your new distro of choice on the "other" partition, and use GRUB/LILO
so you can boot both the new and the old distros.  Work on getting the
new distro up to spec when you have time, use the old distro when you
just need to get work done.  This assumes your /home/ is a separate
partition, but even that can be gotten around - use a softlink on the
new distro until you're ready to use the new distro permanently, then
do some partition housecleaning.

Fodder for the distro wars ...  I'm not too happy with Fedora Core 5:
it's bulky and the software installation is ugly and slow from the GUI
or the command line.  I left RedHat a little while after the
introduction of Fedora Core 1, went to Debian.  Debian does seem to
have the best/fastest/most reliable package system (also applies to
derivatives, best known being Ubuntu).  It also seems to have the
easiest upgrades.  Whatever you do, I don't think it would be a good
idea to "upgrade" at this point, too many releases have gone by.
Install a new distro on another partition, migrate all those config
files, recompile all those little apps ...  I feel your pain, if it
helps any.

> > On 6/9/06, bob <ican-rZHaEmXdJNJWk0Htik3J/w at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> > > My dialup provider (Netrover) has recently switched to SMTP with
> > > authentication.
> > > I can't find the place to set this in my RedHat 7.2 version of Kmail
> > > (v1.3.1) Any suggestions other than upgrade?

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