Re: [Evolution] Evo 3.2.2 sees itself as offline

[Patrick O'Callaghan <poc usb ve>]

On Tue, 2012-05-15 at 15:01 +0100, Pete Biggs wrote:
> > > I followed instructions from [1] and setup my evolution to talk to
> > > Yahoo! with IMAP (not IMAP+) in 3.5.1 and it works. I also instruct
> > > the sending part to require authentication and filled there the same
> > > user ymail com user name. With that evolution works for me. Of course,
> > > I've pretty empty Inbox on the Yahoo! server currently, which may or may
> > > not do the difference.
>
> > > [1]
> > > http://help.yahoo.com/kb/index?locale=en_US&page=content&y=PROD_MAIL_MOBILE&id=SLN3361&impressions=true
>
> > I will have a look at the link. So it has to be possible to connect to
> > Yahoo after all (At least with your Evolution version). I will let you
> > know whether I had any success.
>
> And I've just set up a connection to my Yahoo! account - and it's even
> more flaky than my Gmail one - a variety of error messages such as
> "Error while Pinging IMAP server imap.mail.yahoo.com - Server
> unexpectedly disconnected. Connection reset by peer"
>
> This on 3.0.2 using IMAP.  I've just switched it to IMAP+ and I'll see
> if it makes any difference.

I suspect this is caused by the fact that Yahoo and Google are
collections of servers, so successive name lookups from Evo can resolve
to different IP addresses in a round-robin fashion.

Or maybe that's too simple.

poc