"J.B. Nicholson" wrote: > Thanks for your help, but I'm afraid that the KMail account setup > wizard is doing nothing which gives me any indication that it is > even trying to connect to my IMAP or SMTP servers to figure out > what the best setup ought to be. IMO time to stop depending on KMail to tell you what it is doing. Run tcpdump (-s0 -wfile) concurrently with your connection attempt. Maybe that will give you some clues. -- Dave Close, Compata, Irvine CA +1 714 434 7359 dave@xxxxxxxxxxx dhclose@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx "If I don't know I don't know, I think I know; if I don't know I know, I think I don't know." - Ronald Laing