On Sat, Mar 08, 2025 at 08:16:24AM -0500, Dan Ritter wrote:
Russell L. Harris wrote:
On Sat, Mar 08, 2025 at 10:16:49AM +0700, Max Nikulin wrote:
>
> Have you tried to create a new system user and to configure evolution
> for it?
Good idea. Thanks.
>
> It may help if your mail provider has enforced another authentication
> method. I hope, both sides: evolution and mails server supports mail
> autoconfiguration.
>
I suppose I am my own mail provider.
What people mean by "mail provider" is the entity that runs and
controls a mail server, with the technical and administrative
right to change anything about it.
In this case, you appear to have Hostgator and perhaps your ISP
as mail providers, but you are not running any mail servers
yourself, are you?
HostGator currently hosts my web site, and HostGator hosts my mail
accounts. But I have mail accounts on other ISPs besides HostGator.
I use getmail running on another machine in the LAN to gather mail for
various addresses, and to run maildrop to sort mail. Of course, I use
HostGator as a "smarthost" for outgoing mail.
And so that machine in the LAN is something of a mail server for the
LAN. I think there is no clear line of demarcation for a "server". I
am not familiar with the term "mail provider".
RLH
