Re: [Evolution] Failed to issue notify - error [SOLVED]

[Lucas Merckelbach <lucas merckelbach hereon de>]

On Thu, 2021-04-01 at 16:15 -0400, Adam Tauno Williams wrote:
> On Thu, 2021-04-01 at 21:21 +0200, Lucas Merckelbach wrote:
> > I have been using evolution on mostly Fedora in the 
> > research institute I work for about 11 years now. Today the
> > institute
> > has  officially changed its name, as well as email servers and all
> > that kind of ...
> > I am convinced that IT messed things up, but, because they support 
> > windows only, they don't give my problem a second's thought. I have
> > no  clue what is the issue here, and an extensive search on the web
> > has  returned nothing. Would someone be able to explain what this
> > message  means, and what might have caused it?
>
> Likely they migrated to an inferior server/service which does not
> support IMAP NOTIFY.
>
> Under the account's receiving preferences uncheck "Listen for server
> change notifications".  I believe this will stop Evolution from
> sending
> NOTIFY requests.   This sends the client back to the old poll-the-
> mailboxes-every-so-often method of yesteryear.

This solved the issue. Many thanks!

Cheers,
Lucas

> > My version of evolution is 3.38.4 (3.38.4-1.fc33)


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