I see that this bug is listed as "affects 1 person." I'd like to point
out the history of the problem goes clear back to 2005 and request that
it be given more attention. The following results can be had by
searching Questions for "evolution ping". So, there are at least 8
other users that have the problem, but others have also added their
notations at various times.
Answered 6709 Can I switch off evolution imap server ping?
2007-05-16 Stephan Elsner — Answered
Answered 1858 Need to ping server before send or receiving using POP3
2006-09-22 rjhutt — Answered
Solved 268423 evolution imap with comcast 2015-06-22 Phil Norisez
— Solved
Answered 118 Timout error in evolution 2005-11-11 Philip
Graetz — Answered
Solved 83263 Evolution with 1and1.com 2009-09-19 richnvel
— Solved
Solved 3965 Send/Receive grayed out in evolution 2.9.92 2007-03-01
|Fred Krogh — Solved
Solved 233857 connection timing out 2013-08-11 David Danforth —
Solved
Solved 68498 Error while Fetching Mail. (Evolution, Jaunty) 2009-04-24
Larry Vogler — Solved
Solved 120667 Noob ?: Evolution "Login Failure" when attempting Send/Receive
2010-08-11 Popeye.Tom — Solved
This problem makes evolution undesirable, since email fetching is
suspended while it determines that the ping is not working. From the
variety of different mailservers on which this has been reported, I
conclude that this is a bug in Ubuntu's version of evolution. Please
address this!
** Summary changed:
- evolution imap with comcast gets ping error
+ evolution imap with various mail servers gets ping error
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Title:
evolution imap with various mail servers gets ping error
Status in evolution package in Ubuntu:
New
Bug description:
Comcast/Xfinity is pushing us to go to IMAP instead of POP, so trying
to do this. Setting up an evolution IMAP account to imap.comcast.net
is all that is needed to reproduce this. Keep getting a message from
evolution about imap.comcast.net disconnecting on a ping. Want to
know if this indicates a real problem or is just an artifact of
incompatibility between ubuntu evolution and comcast/xfinity, and CAN
BE IGNORED.
Error reads as follows: "Error while Pinging IMAP server
imap.comcast.net. Server unexpectedly disconnected. Connection
timed out."
Evolution info: 3.2.3
Ubuntu info: 12.04 (precise) kernel info: 3.13.0-55-generic
I am reporting this as a bug because Ubuntu Software Center says:
"Canonical provides critical updates for Evolution Mail and Calendar
until April 2017."
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