Re: [Evolution] [solved] Cannot get POP summary: Socket I/O timed out

[Steve T <stevetucknott yahoo co uk>]

> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > I noticed that access to one of my three Yahoo accounts is slower,
> > > when using Evolution. All are fast when using Claws-Mail. More
> > > precise, this one Yahoo account is one of my two Rocketmail accounts,
> > > just the third is a plain Yahoo account. All settings are equal for
> > > those accounts, there's no explanation for the slower access to one
> > > of the Rocketmail accounts. There's just one thing I didn't verify.
> > > Claws-Mail keeps mails on the server and Evolution deletes mails
> > > after one day from the server. Much unlikely, but possible, maybe one
> > > Rocketmail account always stored fewer mails to be deleted after one
> > > day, than the other account. I don't think so, but didn't count the
> > > mails. This theoretically could explain a delay for one account.
> > >
> > > Regards,
> > > Ralf  
>
>
> PS: This account wasn't slower, before I disabled the POP thingy.

Evolution 3.20.5 Fedora 24.

I use yahoo accounts as well and had the same issues - ie initially I started getting socket issues (at that time I was running Fedora 22 - and that was EOL, so wasn't receiving updates and hence Evolution wasn't changing) and saw the thread here, so changed the Evolution config to check the option to disable support for pop3 extensions. That seemed to work, in as much as the socket issue disappeared, but then the mail collection slowed down dramatically. It was so slow it just seemed to hang.

Anyway, I upgraded my laptop to Fedora 24 - and Evolution 3.20.5, and experienced the same issue with speed oh the Yahoo accounts. So I thought I'd uncheck the 'disable Pop3 extensions' to see what then happened with the later version of Evo - and it's all fine. So now with Evolution 3.20.5 on Fedora 24, Yahoo accounts are back to working as they were a few weeks back. Well for me they are anyway!

This mail was sent from Evolution and went through without an issue - and in a 'normal' amount of time.