Re: [Evolution] (no subject)

[Patrick O'Callaghan <poc usb ve>]

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.
>
> 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.  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.  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.
>
> 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.   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.

This is all pretty vague but everything you say seems to indicate a
problem with your mail server or your office Internet connection (i.e.
your ISP), not with Evolution. You should talk to the server admin, or
contact Red Hat support if you have a service contract.

If you don't think that's the problem, you need to be much more explicit
about your setup. For example, you don't say whether you access your
mail from home using IMAP or POP. Your description of how it's accessed
from within the office is also unclear. Do you mean some kind of
file-sharing scheme such as NFS? Did anyone touch the system while you
were convalescing? Is there a sys admin who is not you yourself? Did
they update the server? Did you update your home machine?

Why are you using ssh to transfer mail? This is to say the least highly
unusual, so you'll need to provide a lot more detail.

poc

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