On Wed, 2010-09-01 at 16:38 -0500, Leonard Evens wrote: > For many years I have been running Fedora (currently 12-13) at home on > PCs and getting my email from an office machine running some version > of RedHat Enterprise Linux. I use evolution on my local home machine > as a mail agent and I use the office machine as a mail outgoing and > incoming server.
This is very vague; your "office" machine receives mail and you access it via IMAP? > But now I am in a state of almost complete collapse, and I would > appreciate whatever help I can get. > First let me describe some complications of the setup. The mail comes > to the office machine but is displayed on the local machine in folders > on the local machine and in a few folders of the office machine used > for reading new mail and the like. I have no idea what this means: "displayed on the local machine in folders on the local machine" > All of this was working fine, but within the past three days I > suddenly found I couldn't access new mail---those folders were no > longer displayed---nor could I send new mail from the local machine to > the office machine functioning as server. Can you reach the office machine? telnet office.example.com 25 # SMTP telnet office.example.com 143 # IMAP > Part of the reason for complications was that that transfer using ssh > failed because my ISP, comcast, changed the address of my local > machine which it does from time to time. What does SSH have to do with mail? > I would have a few problems with this situation, but it is much worse > now for the following reason. On or about Aug. 3, I upgraded my Linux > systems, and then on Aug. 8, I collided with a bicyclce, while riding, > the result being concussion in my 77 year old head. I spent about two > weeks in the hospital recovering from this, and I was still able to > deal with my system after being let out. But I am far from up to par > yet, and this is about the worst time I could be left with a problem > of this nature. > I have resolved some of the problem---as the discussion about > indicates---but I still can't either read incoming email or send > outgoing email by usual methods. What are the "usual methods"? > Everything was fine until the latest change in email on the server and > local machine using evolution took effect. > So although it is possible that I just have to do a few more things to > get it all working, I am not there yet. If anyone can give me some > clues to help my 77 year old, somewhat concussed, brain resolve this > problem, I would really appreciate it. > P.S. My wife also gets her mail on a Windows machine using > Thunderbird > with this setup, but usually, I resolve the problems using Linux, and > I would prefer to do it that way this time. If absolutely necessary, > I can explore the Windows/Thunderbird route to help understand what is > happening, but I would like to avoid that if I can. -- Adam Tauno Williams <[email protected]> LPIC-1, Novell CLA <http://www.whitemiceconsulting.com> OpenGroupware, Cyrus IMAPd, Postfix, OpenLDAP, Samba _______________________________________________ evolution-list mailing list [email protected] To change your list options or unsubscribe, visit ... http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
