Re: [Evolution] communication with servers has stopped.

[Patrick O'Callaghan <poc usb ve>]

On Sat, 2012-11-03 at 15:33 -0500, Aaron Konstam wrote:
> On Sat, 2012-11-03 at 12:07 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> > On Sat, 2012-11-03 at 08:24 -0500, Aaron Konstam wrote:
> > > On Fri, 2012-11-02 at 18:31 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> > > > On Thu, 2012-11-01 at 21:06 -0500, Aaron Konstam wrote:
> > > > > This morning evolution worked as it has always worked. Suddenly at 3pm
> > > > > it refused to work by claiming that the passwords to the pop and smtp
> > > > > server were wrong..
> > > > > This occurred at the same time on 2 machines. I tried to recreate the
> > > > > default account but the same error occurs. What can I do to fix this?
> > > >
> > > > Did you check if the passwords were in fact correct? Both giving
> > > > password errors at the same time is rather a red flag.
> > > >
> > > > poc
> > > They were correct and evolution started working again the next day.
> >
> > This strongly suggests that the problem is not with Evo but with the
> > server.
> >
> > poc
> But ATT would not admit that and there was a problem because Outlook on
> Windows 7 worked on the same servers.

Did you try that? How about Thunderbird? Or even telnet to the server
and see if your password is recognized.

If this happened with a single Evo instance, I would start by looking at
Evo, but you say it happened on two machines *at the same time*. Unless
you had just updated both machines, that's too much of a coincidence.

poc