Re: [Evolution] Fw: Evolution refuses to work =(

[Jeffrey Stedfast <fejj ximian com>]

As you discovered, her POP server is braindamaged (that's a technical
term). Luckily, we have a checkbox for braindamaged POP servers which we
gave a politically correct name: "Disable support for all POP3
extensions"

You can find this option in the account editor under the "Receiving
Options" tab (you have to be running a fairly current 1.4 release tho,
1.4.6 definitely has it and I think 1.4.5 does too, but not sure about
earlier versions)

Good luck,

Jeff

On Wed, 2004-04-07 at 09:52, Andre Costa wrote:
> Hi folks, first time around. I am following below the email I sent a
> couple of days ago to the Fedora ML, hoping you guys could lend me a
> hand on this.
>
> Let me know if you need more info.
>
> TIA
>
> Andre
>
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>
> Date: Sun, 4 Apr 2004 23:42:05 -0300
> From: Andre Costa <acosta ar microlink com br>
> To: Fedora ML <fedora-list redhat com>
> Subject: Evolution refuses to work =(
>
>
> Hi,
>
> this is probably better suited for evolution ML (to which I have just
> subscribed), but maybe someone here has already gone through the same
> experience and will be able to shed some light:
>
> I installed evolution on my Linux box so that my girlfriend could read
> her email (I use Sylpheed myself, but I thought she would be pleased
> with evolution's bells and whistles). However, it refuses to read her
> emails, freezing for a while on the "send and receive email" dialog and
> then showing me the "Erro while fetching Mail: Cannot get POP summary:
> Operation now in progress" dialog.
>
> If I telnet directly to her ISP's POP server port 110, all seems to be
> fine (USER, PASS and LIST work). I captured traffic to her POP server
> with ethereal, and it seems the last thing evolution sees is "CAPA"
> command issued after she has authenticated (evolution tries another one
> as soon as it connects -- i.e. before authentication -- but this one is
> refused).
>
> If I try the same sequence of commands with telnet, server indeed takes
> a couple of seconds to retrieve capability list, and sometimes it indeed
> drops connection (which means it's not evolution's problem after all).
> It looks like her POP server is braindead.
>
> So, to make a long story short: can I tell evolution not to try 'CAPA'
> to workaround this issue?
>
> TIA
>
> Andre
>
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