Re: [Evolution] POP3 stopped working after upgrade to 3.0

[Daye Liu <rosemont gmail com>]

On Thu, 2011-05-26 at 17:11 +1000, Phillip Gardner wrote:
> > It still checks and received POP3 email when started the first time.
> > But then when click on the the 'Send/Receive' button, or at scheduled
> > receiving time, the pop-up window flashes by, but nothing is actually
> > received ever since.  If close the application and reopen it, then it
> > can check and receive for once.
> >
> > This was not observed before.
> >
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> Hi Daye,
>
> I had a similar issue to the one above where Evolution stopped
> sending/receiving POP3 email and after much investigation I found that
> the Network Proxy setting in Fedora Core 14 (in the system menu) where I
> had set the work place proxy was somehow stopping Evolution from
> working. I got the same pop-up window flashing by but no email from
> POP3.
>
> I changed my configuration to have the proxy set in Evolutiuon
> Preferences -> Network Preferences and set the Network Proxy setting in
> Fedora to direct. That got Evolution working and then to allow programs
> to access the web from desktop by proxy, I manually the http_proxy
> variable to the corporate proxy.
>
> Regards
> Phil

Thanks Pail.  I followed your steps, but it did not change the behavior
of Evolution.  I am not sure whether your experience was the same, as on
my computer, it checks and retrieves once, every time I open it up.  So
my current solution is to close the application every half hour or so.;)
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