Re: [Evolution] Correct settings for AOL in USA

[Andre Klapper <ak-47 gmx net>]

On Sat, 2018-08-18 at 19:45 -0400, Dr. John H. Lauterbach wrote:
> I have a new family member who uses AOL and I am having problems
> getting AOL to work under Evolution 3.28.1-2 running under Ubuntu
> 18.04. I added user to one of my existing PCs and set up account as I
> would for myself. Evolution works fine for an IMAP account off of one
> of my company's e-mail addresses I set up for the new user. I set up
> the AOL account as IMAP according to recent instructions on the
> internet.
>
> Receiving mail
>
> imap.aol.com  Port 993
>
> TLS on a dedicated port       Authentication Password
>
> Sending mail
>
> smtp.aol.com  Port 465
>
> TLS on a dedicated port Authentication Login
>
> Everything should work, but the POPUP "Mail authentication request"
> with correct username and password keeps popping up when AOL goes to
> scan folders in imap.aol.com
>
> What am I doing wrong?

https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Evolution/Debugging might offer you more
output that you could check.

andre
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