Re: [Evolution] Mail server doesn't show up

[Pete Biggs <pete biggs org uk>]

> The gmail account is imap.  It works.  The setup wizard chose pop3 for
> the yahoo account.  I pushed the button to check for authentication, and
> it didn't respond.  So I tried imap (and changed the server address to
> imap.yahoo.com) and it responded quickly.  But the account still didn't
> appear in the left panel.
>
> When I push the button to send queued mail and refresh inboxes, it shows
> both the yahoo and gmail accounts in the progress window.

POP accounts don't have their own entry in the side bar. POP as a
protocol sucks mail from a server and the mail actually resides on your
local machine - with IMAP the mail stays on the server.  Consequently a
POP account (in fact all POP accounts) mail is in the "On This
Computer" folders.

As for changing the server type - it usually doesn't work well once
things are setup. Try deleting the account and starting again.  You
might do well to shutdown Evolution to let things catch up - you may
have to go further (like logging out) since there are some background
processes that may need to re-read the configuration.

> I think the evolution version is fairly old -- it's whatever is bundled
> with Scientific Linux 6.9.

Unfortunately there are so many different Linux versions and distros
out there that giving the distro info doesn't mean much to most people.

P.