On Tue, 2012-05-15 at 15:01 +0100, Pete Biggs wrote: > > > I followed instructions from [1] and setup my evolution to talk to > > > Yahoo! with IMAP (not IMAP+) in 3.5.1 and it works. I also instruct > > > the sending part to require authentication and filled there the same > > > [email protected] user name. With that evolution works for me. Of course, > > > I've pretty empty Inbox on the Yahoo! server currently, which may or may > > > not do the difference. > > > > [1] > > > http://help.yahoo.com/kb/index?locale=en_US&page=content&y=PROD_MAIL_MOBILE&id=SLN3361&impressions=true > > > > > I will have a look at the link. So it has to be possible to connect to > > Yahoo after all (At least with your Evolution version). I will let you > > know whether I had any success. > > And I've just set up a connection to my Yahoo! account - and it's even > more flaky than my Gmail one - a variety of error messages such as > "Error while Pinging IMAP server imap.mail.yahoo.com - Server > unexpectedly disconnected. Connection reset by peer" > > This on 3.0.2 using IMAP. I've just switched it to IMAP+ and I'll see > if it makes any difference.
I suspect this is caused by the fact that Yahoo and Google are collections of servers, so successive name lookups from Evo can resolve to different IP addresses in a round-robin fashion. Or maybe that's too simple. poc _______________________________________________ evolution-list mailing list [email protected] To change your list options or unsubscribe, visit ... http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
