Re: [Evolution] help with IMAP



i gave up trying to use evolution with IMAP it just wont work right, it
is slow and will not allow me to read email offline. instead i now use
offlineimap http://gopher.quux.org:70/devel/offlineimap its a dream come
true, try it you will like it.


On Mon, 2003-03-10 at 16:39, James D. Ivey wrote:
See comments in line....

On Fri, 2003-03-07 at 19:40, Jack Veenstra wrote:

I am running the latest version that red-carpet installed for me:
version 1.2.2 (the same as yours).  I just installed RedHat 8.0
last week and that's when I started using Evolution.  (Previously,
I used "vm" in xemacs.)  But I've never used IMAP to fetch mail.

Second, you didn't say whether you told evo that the server was an
IMAP server.  I assume that, under mail settings, you set the server
type to "IMAP."  

To be precise, here's what I did:

Under Tools -> Settings, I click on my one mail account and click
on Edit.  Then under the "Receiving Mail" tab, I select "IMAP"
from the "Server Type" menu, and fill in the Host (po.sandcraft.com)
and my Username (veenstra).  SSL is not used and the Authentication
type is "Password".  After making these changes, I exit Evolution,
run "killev" and restart Evolution.  It asks for my password when
it tries to fetch my mail and I give it my password.
I'm with you up to here.  Except I'm not sure I exited and ran
killev.  I think the accounts just came up, but then it was a while
ago and I don't remember.  Anyway, I don't see anything unusual here. 
Then, at the bottom of the main Evolution window, in the status bar,
it displays:

Scanning folders in "IMAP server po.sandcraft.com" (...)
I get that (different server though), but it flashes so briefly that
it's hard to read. 
There is also a popup titled "Send & Receive Mail" that remains
around forever.  It contains two progress bars, one for receiving
mail and one for sending mail.
I only get that when I click the Send/Receive button.  I think it's
odd that it pops up at startup. 
At this point, evolution is hung.  I can click on the "Cancel All"
button on the popup ("Send and Receive Mail") but it doesn't go away.
I have to kill evolution from a Unix shell.
Everything here and below is beyond me.   
If I then try to restart Evolution without first running "killev" it
will immediately hang again (while displaying the intial popup "Ximian
Evolution"). I have to run "killev" first and then "evolution" again in
order to bring it up to the point where I can reset the settings to tell
it not to use IMAP.

Once, even after "killev", the "oafd" daemon continued to run (using
100% of the cpu) and prevented me from restarting "evolution" (Evolution
would hang every time I tried to restart it).

I wish there was a way to see what it is waiting for when it is hung.
I wonder if there is any way to turn on extra debugging messages.

Jack V.
Sorry I couldn't help more.  Good luck!

Regards,

Jim

P.S.  Ooops!  This was ready to send before the weekend and I just
left it here.... my apologies. 

-- 

James D. Ivey <james iveylaw com>

Law Offices of James D. Ivey





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