Re: [Evolution] (no subject)

[Adam Tauno Williams <awilliam whitemice org>]

On Wed, 2010-09-01 at 16:38 -0500, Leonard Evens wrote:
> For many years I have been running Fedora (currently 12-13) at home on
> PCs and getting my email from an office machine running some version
> of RedHat Enterprise Linux.  I use evolution on my local home machine
> as a mail agent and I use the office machine as a mail outgoing and
> incoming server.

This is very vague;  your "office" machine receives mail and you access
it via IMAP?

> But now I am in a state of almost complete collapse, and I would
> appreciate whatever help I can get.
> First let me describe some complications of the setup.  The mail comes
> to the office machine but is displayed on the local machine in folders
> on the local machine and in a few folders of the office machine used
> for reading new mail and the like. 

I have no idea what this means: "displayed on the local machine in
folders on the local machine"

>  All of this was working fine, but within the past three days I
> suddenly found I couldn't access new mail---those folders were no
> longer displayed---nor could I send new mail from the local machine to
> the office machine functioning as server. 

Can you reach the office machine?

telnet office.example.com 25 # SMTP
telnet office.example.com 143 # IMAP

>  Part of the reason for complications was that that transfer using ssh
> failed because my ISP, comcast, changed the address of my local
> machine which it does from time to time.

What does SSH have to do with mail?

> I would have a few problems with this situation, but it is much worse
> now for the following reason.  On or about Aug. 3, I upgraded my Linux
> systems, and then on Aug. 8, I collided with a bicyclce, while riding,
> the result being concussion in my 77 year old head.  I spent about two
> weeks in the hospital recovering from this, and I was still able to
> deal with my system after being let out.  But I am far from up to par
> yet, and this is about the worst time I could be left with a problem
> of this nature.
> I have resolved some of the problem---as the discussion about
> indicates---but I still can't either read incoming email or send
> outgoing email by usual methods.

What are the "usual methods"?

> Everything was fine until the latest change in email on the server and
> local machine using evolution took effect.
> So although it is possible that I just have to do a few more things to
> get it all working,  I am not there yet.   If anyone can give me some
> clues to help my 77 year old, somewhat concussed, brain resolve this
> problem, I would really appreciate it.
> P.S.  My wife also gets her mail on a Windows machine using
> Thunderbird
> with this setup, but usually, I resolve the problems using Linux, and
> I would prefer to do it that way this time.   If absolutely necessary,
> I can explore the Windows/Thunderbird route to help understand what is
> happening, but I would like to avoid that if I can.

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Adam Tauno Williams <awilliam whitemice org> LPIC-1, Novell CLA
<http://www.whitemiceconsulting.com>
OpenGroupware, Cyrus IMAPd, Postfix, OpenLDAP, Samba