Setup Gmail SMTP in KMail

Tyler — Thu, 28 May 2009 19:00:22 +0000

After easily setting up your Gmail IMAP account in KMail (perhaps using a tutorial like the one featured on Jatecblog) you may wonder how to set up your outgoing SMTP acout too. After some looking around, I don’t see much of anything on this subject other than people having problems setting it up, so I sat down to figure it and and I believe I have figured it out. Here’s how I went about doing it.

1. First off, open up KMail and go to “Configure KMail” under the Settings menu. This will bring up (as you might have guessed) the settings for KMail.

KMail: Settings > Configure KMail...

2. Once the settings window opens up, click on “Accounts”. In this section I set “Send messages in outbox folder:” to “On All Mail Checks”. (Note: that is optional).

The Accounts section.

3. Now click on the “Add…” button and a dialouge box comes up. Selece “SMTP” and then click “OK”.

Add > SMTP

4. Now to put in the important information. Under the “General” tab:

Name: What ever you want it to be
Host: smtp.gmail.com
Port: 587
Server Requires Authentication: Checked
Login: username@gmail.com
Password: your password
Store Password: Checked if wanted.

General Settings

5. Now, under the “Security” tab you can either click “Check What the Server Supports” or just select “TLS” for encryption and “PLAIN” for the authentication method.

Security Settings

6. Click OK in this window and the main settings window and start sending emails!

Import Reader Feeds into Akregator

Tyler — Tue, 26 May 2009 19:00:13 +0000

I just moved over to KDE 3.5 (the good old days) and was migrating everything over to Kontact (which includes Akregator) and decided it would be nice to import my Google Reader feeds into Akregator. I’ve compiled steps on how I did this myself.

1. Head over to Google Reader (http://google.com/reader/) and go to the “Import/Export” tab under your settings.

Google Reader : Settings > Import/Export

2. Click “Export your subscriptions as an OPML file” and then save it. Make sure to remember where you saved it.

Export your subscriptions as an OPML file

3. Now go to the “File” menu in Akregator and click on “Import Feeds…” then find the .xml file you saved and click open.

Akregator : File > Import Feeds...

Open the .xml file you saved earlier

4. Finally, enter the name you want that folder to have.

Name the folder

Now all you have to do is wait for the feeds to load and you are good to go!

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Setup Gmail SMTP in KMail

Import Reader Feeds into Akregator