Re: [Evolution] I/O operation timing out

[Pete Biggs <pete biggs org uk>]

> Update: I had pretty much decided the problem (getting I/O timeout with
> Send/Receive on Evolution--doesn't seem to affect sending new email) lay
> in my Motorola 5101 modem from TimeWarner. It may still lie there but I
> just noticed this: My wife is out of town for a week. She uses a Mac and
> Mac's Mail, which is on all the time. With her gone, I haven't had any
> problems with my Evolution mail failing to connect ("Error while
> fetching mail from .... Could not connect to .... I/O operation timed
> out"). So I pulled out an old MacBook and sure enough, as soon as I
> turned on Mail, I started getting the timeout problems again. Turn off
> Mail and Evolution mail works fine. 

That'll be interesting to sort out!

Are you (both) on wired or wireless connections? 

Are you both using the same server / account for mail?

To be honest it sounds like something is wrong with your NAT
router/firewall in that the packets are being sent to the wrong host -
it could be configuration or it could just be a bug, but it certainly
seems like packets are going astray.

> Interestingly this does not happen on this computer at work, in a small
> office where the boss uses Mac and Mac Mail all the time--even when he
> was using earlier versions of Mac.

It's probably because your office doesn't use a NAT'd network - or that
the NAT router works properly.

P.