Re: [Evolution] Evo 3.0.2 won't download mail

[Rick Phillips <rick greyheads net>]

> I presume you are talking about POP3 - you don't actually say.
That is correct.

> > With this version, there are a couple of further difficulties such as
> > continuing to collect duplicates of mail (for various reasons I leave
> > mail on the server) and the fact that it only receives mail when it is
> > opened initially and not after that.  Even when invoking "get mail"
> > manually, nothing downloads.  To get new mail, I have to shut down and
> > restart Evolution.  I have tried every conceivable setting combination
> > over a period of 3 days to no avail.
>
> As you said, others have complained about it as well, but I can't find
> any bug listed in Bugzilla about it.  I don't use POP3 (and my advice to
> anyone having problems with it is usually to ditch POP3 and use IMAP
> instead), so there's no point in me filing a bug.
IMAP is not an option - my mail server is POP only.

> I suggest you do some debugging and data gathering - see here for more
> information on how to do it:
>
>      http://projects.gnome.org/evolution/bugs.shtml
>
> and then file a bug.  If it's a duplicate or a trivial problem you will
> soon find out.  If you do file a bug please let this list know the bug
> ID so others can add to it if necessary.
>
> The other thing to try is to create a new Linux account and set up mail
> from that to see if it's still a problem.  It may be that something in
> the upgrade process got mucked up.
I will try a fresh install in the morning when I am feeling a little less frustrated.  I will remove all 
existing accounts and mail files and start from scratch to see what happens but I am not hopeful.  The 
duplicate mail downloads have started again so I have to remove some 500 duplicates every time I start Evo.  
This is very bad really.

Rick