Re: [Evolution] sometimes can't get mail

[Patrick O'Callaghan <poc usb ve>]

On Wed, 2010-09-15 at 00:25 +1200, Victoria Spagnolo wrote:
> > Please explain what you mean by "couldn't send or receive". You mean
> > there's no connectivity (did you try pinging the respective
> servers?),
> > or there was a password failure, or Evo connected but didn't
> > download/upload anything, or what?
>
> As I recall I could ping myisp and probably also pinged smtp.myisp.
> How do I know if Evo connected? 

You can turn on debugging and look at the trace output (very long and of
course you have to understand it:

$ CAMEL_DEBUG=all evolution > DEBUG-OUT 2>&1 &

Or use wireshark if you're familiar with protocol sniffers.

> > You also need to consider policy in force on the net you're
> connected
> > to. Some admins, especially in corporate networks, won't allow
> > connections to random external servers.
>
> Seems odd as I was the only one in my group that experienced this
> problem. 

Do the others also use Evo?

poc