On Sat 08 Mar 2025 at 18:40:22 (+0000), Russell L. Harris wrote: > On Sat, Mar 08, 2025 at 08:16:24AM -0500, Dan Ritter wrote: > > Russell L. Harris wrote: > > > On Sat, Mar 08, 2025 at 10:16:49AM +0700, Max Nikulin wrote: > > > > > > > > Have you tried to create a new system user and to configure evolution > > > > for it? > > > > > > Good idea. Thanks. > > > > > > > It may help if your mail provider has enforced another authentication > > > > method. I hope, both sides: evolution and mails server supports mail > > > > autoconfiguration. > > > > > > > I suppose I am my own mail provider. > > > > What people mean by "mail provider" is the entity that runs and > > controls a mail server, with the technical and administrative > > right to change anything about it. > > > > In this case, you appear to have Hostgator and perhaps your ISP > > as mail providers, but you are not running any mail servers > > yourself, are you? > > HostGator currently hosts my web site, and HostGator hosts my mail > accounts. But I have mail accounts on other ISPs besides HostGator. > I use getmail running on another machine in the LAN to gather mail for > various addresses, and to run maildrop to sort mail. Of course, I use > HostGator as a "smarthost" for outgoing mail. > > And so that machine in the LAN is something of a mail server for the > LAN. I think there is no clear line of demarcation for a "server". I > am not familiar with the term "mail provider".
In this context, my understanding of an Internet mail server can be illustrated in the following way. If your "machine in the LAN" receives emails by asking for them from another machine, then it's not an IMS. If you can switch off the machine for a week or two and yet not lose any emails, then it's not an IMS. Cheers, David.
