On Mon, 2014-09-01 at 09:41 +0100, Pete Biggs wrote: > > I've only seen one type of error, which appears in a red bar at the top > > of the evolution window, typically when evolution asks for the POP > > server's password: > > Error while Fetching mail from 'jonr...@pacbell.net'. > > Cannot get POP summary: > > > What do you get if you run Evo from the command line? > > > > > > Can you spot any relevant errors if you run it with debugging turned on? > > > > The file evolution.log generated by the command is attached: > > CAMEL_DEBUG=pop3 evolution 2>&1 | tee evolution.log > > Nothing jumps out at me, but I'm not familiar with this kind of log. > > > > OK. The relevant error is: > > POP3_STREAM_WRITE (15): > PASS xxxxxxxx > POP3_STREAM_LINE (22): '+OK password required.' > Got + response > POP3_STREAM_LINE (47): '-ERR [SYS/TEMP] internal server error > (#IS6532)' > POP3_STREAM_WRITE (26): > USER jonr...@pacbell.net > > Evolution is reporting an error because the Yahoo servers are giving an > error. This isn't an Evolution problem as such - except in that when an > error occurs, Evolution assumes it's an authentication problem and > immediately prompts for a password. (The difference with something like > Thunderbird is that it retries with the same password and it usually > works the second time - hence it looks like everything is OK with > another MUI.) > > There are lots of people complaining about this error on Yahoo driven > systems (such as AT&T, Pacbell, BT etc.) without much evidence of a > solution (try Googling for "yahoo mail is6532"). The only place I've > seen that claims a solution is: > > http://www.emailquestions.com/isp-free-email-support-forums/9255-fix-err-sys-temp-internal-server-error-is6532.html > > which implies that you need to use SSL for POP (i.e. POPS on port 995). > So check your settings to make sure that's what you are using.
These are the exact settings in evolution for receiving email. If I remember correctly, evolution set this up for me automatically when I switched from fetchmail to evolution direct about a year ago. Thanks very much for the info. Everything is now clear. _______________________________________________ evolution-list mailing list evolution-list@gnome.org To change your list options or unsubscribe, visit ... https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
