Re: [orca-list] OT setting up Evolution Mail

[Michael Whapples <mwhapples aim com>]

I think in evolution the option for POP as server type is the same as 
POP3 in other clients. One would have thought that if evolution was 
unable to get the mail for some reason it would show a warning/error 
message. Are there any specific settings you are unsure of which we 
could try and explain?

An alternative to using evolution for email would be thunderbird. I 
would say in general I prefer the interface of thunderbird, setting up 
email accounts can be easy (it has a feature where it can attempt to 
find out the settings automatically for you, eg. with my AIM email 
account I just entered my email address and password and thunderbird 
found the server settings for me). However from time to time Mozilla 
products do seem to break something with accessibility, there's times 
when you feel what might they break next. As an example if you use a 
version of thunderbird from the 3.1 branch there is a problem with focus 
when you open a message in a new window rather than in a new tab, 
upgrading to thunderbird 3.3 development builds will solve that but 3.3 
has an issue of speaking the wrong character when using backspace. 
Despite the warts of thunderbird I do still use it rather than 
evolution. I think the only time I would use evolution instead of 
thunderbird is if I needed to use an exchange server for email, I don't 
know of any plugin or support for it in thunderbird.

Michael Whapples
On -10/01/37 20:59, Glenn wrote:
> Hi,
> I got the Voxin to work with the latest package.
> Now that I can tolerate the voice, I thought I'd set Evolution Mail.
> I have set up Outlook express a hundred times, and Outlook a number of
> times, and even Eudora a number of times a long time ago.
> But I can't seem to get Evolution to set up for Pop3.
> In the list of server types, there is POP, but not POP3, but I don't know if
> this makes any difference.
> I'm connected to the Internet, and I press F9 to check messages, and it goes
> out, and seems to not get anything.
> I know that there is stuff there, because I looked at on the web-mail.
> Some of the settings aren't exactly like Outlook Express, so when there is
> no choice exactly like in OE, I feel that there might be a problem.Anyone
> else had trouble here?
> And if so, what might I look for?
> Thanks.
>
> Glenn