evolution does not recieves pop mail

Ray Parrish crp at cmc.net
Thu Dec 4 21:12:37 UTC 2008


John/Pat Heinen wrote:
> Joep L. Blom wrote:
>   
>> Mark Haney schreef:
>>   
>>     
>>> Serge Skorokhodov wrote:
>>>
>>>     
>>>       
>>>> Thanks for answering. I'm afraid that this cannot be the case as 
>>>> Thunderbird easily recieves mail from the same server (leaving messages 
>>>> in place).  I've tried to get a log of evolution with 'env 
>>>> CAMEL_DEBUG=all evolution &> evo.log' command. I failed to find any 
>>>> errors, all downloaded messages are written to the log. No new mail in 
>>>> Inbox though... Kinda mistery isn't it?
>>>>
>>>>       
>>>>         
>>> I recall Evo having this problem long ago and it turned out the messages 
>>> were there, but for some reason not being displayed.  This could account 
>>> for the lack of errors in the log.  But, I've not used Evo in a LONG 
>>> time since I got sick and tired of Gnome ages ago.
>>>
>>> Have you tried re-installing the evolution-data-server package? 
>>> Something in my head vaguely recalls that being a possible fix to that.
>>>
>>>
>>>     
>>>       
>> My 2 cents:
>> Stop using Evolution and switch over to Thunderbird. I did it 4 months 
>> ago and has had no problems with my mail (I use pop via dovecot) since. 
>> Evo was stable for several years but since last year "improvements" has 
>> made it highly unreliable. I have used it in Fedora and since I switched 
>> to Ubuntu (this year) until July in that OS. The calendar plugin makes 
>> Thunderbird equal to Evolution. But it just my opinion.
>> Joep
>>
>>
>>   
>>     
> Hi Joep, I have a brother Joep in Nederland, after downloading 
> Thunterebird, I have two icons on my  desktop with files, how do I 
> install it. Thans,Hans
>
>   
Rather than downloading Thunderbird from their web site, the better way 
to install Thunderbird is by using Synaptic package manager. This will 
allow you to get the updates as they hit the repositories. If you 
manually install it yourself it will not get updated.

Later, Ray Parrish

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