Unable to send mail, configure ewsmtaresource on 17.04

[tkuther]

Hi,

sorry if this is the wrong place to ask, but I'm having a hard time getting mail delivery to work. How do I configure Kmail to use the ewsmtaresource, or what else has to be done to make it work?

Things I tried:

• add the ewsmtaresource using akonadiconsole (it wasn't running before)
• try to add a sending account in KMail, but it seems to insist on SMTP and I do not see any way to add anything other than SMTP.

I'm using Kmail 17.04 with latest akonadi-ews git

[KrissN]

Adding the MTA/outgoing mail resource should be done through the KMail configuration dialogs in the Accounts section. Normally KMail will only offer SMTP as the account option, but if it detects another resource that has the MTA capability it should also list it and allow creation of an account.

I have checked this on my KMail 17.04 and surprisingly I can confirm that there are no options besides SMTP. My existing account works (I've added it before upgrading to 17.04). Something must have changed in that version - I'll investigate.

[tkuther]

Thank you for reproducing.

This seems related: KDE/kmailtransport@b7885d4

[KrissN]

This looks bad - if there is no alternative then MTA support is essentially broken since 17.04.

EDIT: There seems to be an alternative. I'll have to provide a patch to adopt to the new API.

[KrissN]

I got a response from Laurent Montel from the KDE PIM team and it looks like he removed support for mail transport over Akonadi resources being unaware that it is actually used.

He has promised to bring back the removed functionality, but it is unclear when that will happen and whether it will also require changes on the EWS resource side.

I'll be monitoring the issue.

[StefanBruens]

Is there some upstream (i.e. bugs.kde.org) bug entry where this is discussed?

[AugisM]

It seems that problem is with account type Akonadi.
There is workarroud to configure manually until be fixed:

1. Add ews account.
2. Goto akonadiconsole and add ewsmta agent.
3. Goto kmail and configure smtp outgoing account.
4. Edit ~/.config/mailtransports and do changes for this smtp account (don't change id number):
   [Transport 44444]
   host=akonadi_ewsmta_resource_0
   id=4444
   name=POST
   type=Akonadi
5. Logout/login.

[Eig8phei]

@AugisM great stuff. I confirm it works and successfully sends emails.

[KrissN]

I have tried the latest KDE Applications from Git and I can see that Laurent fixed the issue and I can now add the EWS MTA resource as before. I haven't tested sending e-mail yet (some issues with the VM).

[boospy]

When can we count on a debpackage?

[KrissN]

The change is on KDE side so you'll have to wait for KDE Applications 17.08.

[Extravert-ir]

Still have this issue with KDE Applications 17.08

[senarclens]

Same here :(
Upgraded to KDE PIM 17.08, pulled newest version of akonadi EWS, compiled and installed it. Re-started akonadi. Created EWS account. Tried to add EWS account for sending but only sendmail and smtp are available.

[senarclens]

@KrissN - any news on this? Thx

[KrissN]

Unfortunately I cannot reproduce this on any of my machines (either running 17.08 or latest master).

[Extravert-ir]

Workaround described on bugs.kde.org:

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=388035

[Elkropac]

Thanks, works also on Debian Sid.

I have suggested adding package kmailtransport-akonadi as recommended package to kdepim-runtime package