On July 15, 2005 12:40 am, Luis Moreira wrote:
> Hi Guys
> I am just starting with Linux and I do not now very well what I am
> doing...
> So with that in mind I am trying to change over, as many people in
> this list suggested, very slowly. I am running Fedora core 3 and I
> tried to setup my email by giving it the incoming and outgoing
> servers. In my case they are POP3@blueyonder.co.uk and
> SMTP@blueyonder.co.uk . The program can send messages but it can not
> connect with the POP3 server, giving me a message saying it can not
> find server ( can not resolve). I can not understand this because
> outlook as exactly the same settings and it works fine.
> Any thoughts?
> Best regards
> 		Luis

Others on the list already pointed out the @

This may also help you as well.

I sent in these screen-shots for when I had Mandrake 8.0, so the KMail 
references may look a little "old" compared to what you have now.
http://www.ehosting.ca/customerService/tutorials/KDEmail/KDEmail.php

This points to both Thunderbird and Kmail depending on which you use.
http://www.ehosting.ca/customerService/tutorials.php

You may also want to take a note of the PORT numbers (25 & 110) if your 
ISP is not the same location as your email provider. Some ISPs block 
the normal email port numbers to kill most of those viruses SPAMing 
garbage.
External mail providers may have alternate port numbers (instead of 25 
or 110) for normal mail or for encrypted SSL-type mail.
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