Am 10.05.2012 23:29, schrieb John A. Sullivan III:
On Thu, 2012-05-10 at 23:24 +0200, Pascal Bernhard wrote:Hey guys, I decided to give Evolution another try (It was my favorite mail application for Linux) after the switch to GNOME 3 by Debian Testing (Wheezy) made the new version of Evolution unusable as would refuse to download new messages telling me it had problems with connecting to the mail servers. Now have Evo 3.2.2 and although it is in online-mode & I have an internet connection, I get told that Evolution is offline and therefor unable to fetch new mails. In the "status bar" at the bottom of the screen I'm informed that Evo tries to retrieve messages from the servers, (All IMAP accounts) but does not make any progress. In fact Evolution seems to have only issues with Yahoo Mail and Gmail accounts. Other mail accounts work quite well (Those also use IMAP). Any ideas how I could fix this issue? Debian Testing Wheezy Kernel 3.2.0 Evolution 3.2.2 Gnome Classic Desktop Design<snip> Is it looking for networkmanager and networkmanager isn't running? Just a guess. By the way, how does one use Evolution to access a Yahoo! account? I thought that was only possible with their premium mail and not their regular free offering. Thanks - John
Hi John, thanks for the quick reply. I think you are on to something. Whereas network-manager is running network-manager-gnome is not. I'm using GNOME classic (the fallback option when GNOME shell won't work well) According to nm-applet the network settings are configured correctly (ifconfig says the same). Unfortunately I'm still looking for a way to invoke network-manager-gnome either by the menu or via the commandline. As it doesn't get started on boot, would I have to put a specific line in /etc/rc.local or rather write a start-up script? I have the impression that Evolution expects network-manager-gnome to run in order to function properly. Weird though, that some mail accounts work without any issues. That shouldn't be case if running network-manager-gnome was absolutely necessary. Since quite a while you can use Yahoo Mail with the IMAP protocol using the standard, free mail offerings. No need to pay for any premium services. It works with other mail clients like Thunderbird, Kmail and, yes, Outlook 2010. Thanks, Pascal --
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