Am 11.05.2012 13:59, schrieb Patrick O'Callaghan: > 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? > > I know several people have already answered this, but just to be a bit > more explicit: > > IF NetworkManager is running > THEN Evo will ask NM for network status > ELSE Evo will make its own determination (not sure how). > > IF NM is installed > AND NM is configured to manage your network interface > THEN NM will report connectivity correctly > ELSE it will report "Offline" even when you're on-line. > > It turns out that problems with Offline in Evo are often caused by NM > not being configured to manage the interface. > > Hope that clears it up.
OK, I'll look into the NM settings then. Still I do not understand, why Evo works with some mail accounts but not with others. It seems to me that it has a problem with certain mail servers. Pascal -- ______________________________________________________________ Pascal Bernhard Schwalbacher Straße 7 12161 Berlin Germany Phone: +49 (0)30 32 66 58 00
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