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 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1467498 Title: evolution imap with various mail servers gets ping error To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/evolution/+bug/1467498/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs