Re: [Evolution] unable to save read port

[Pete Biggs <pete biggs org uk>]

On Sun, 2022-07-03 at 21:04 +0000, Kevin T via evolution-list wrote:
> All,
>
> I just downloaded a centos 8 stream and installed on an older linux
> box that I had been using as a server.
>
> It installed, loaded and started exactly I had expected. 
>
> I logged in as me, the only user.
>
> The very first thing I wanted to do is setup email.  I started
> evolution and went through the setup steps, via the gui.  I set it
> up, or so I thought, for yahoo mail.   Attempting to populate my
> inbox failed, with a server access message.  I checked everything and
> the port selection was still the default value, 143, even though I
> changed it to value that yahoo mails wants, which is 993.
>
> I changed it to 993 and said "OK" on the gui.  I killed evolution and
> restarted it.   It still wouldn't read the mail and the port value
> had gone back to 143.  I searched but could not find a textual file
> in the .config/evolution directory, with these values in it.  I tried
> a number of gyrations, sequences of changing, killing, restarting and
> nothing would allow the port setting to remain as needed.
>
> what can i do to fix this?

Port 143 is IMAP, port 993 is IMAPS. So make sure you set the
Encryption method to "TLS on a dedicated port". If it is set to "No
encryption" or "STARTTLS", then for both those the (at least initial)
port is 143.

I suspect that if you had chosen anything other 993, it would have
stuck, but would be wrong.  993 definitely requires an SSL encrypted
connection.

> ps  how do I search this mailing list for posts like this?

At the bottom of every post there's a link to the mailing list admin:

 https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list

and from there is an link to the archives that you can search:

 https://mail.gnome.org/archives/evolution-list/

Also, in the Help within Evolution, there's a section entitled "How to
get help" and there's a link in there to the mailing list and archives
as well.

> pss sad state of affairs when the very first task, in a stable OS,
> fails.

A discussion elsewhere would probably argue with you that CentOS Stream
isn't a stable OS - but this isn't the place for it - however, I
suspect that Evolution in it is stable.

P.