On Sun, 2022-07-03 at 21:04 +0000, Kevin T via evolution-list wrote: > All, > > I just downloaded a centos 8 stream and installed on an older linux > box that I had been using as a server. > > It installed, loaded and started exactly I had expected. > > I logged in as me, the only user. > > The very first thing I wanted to do is setup email. I started > evolution and went through the setup steps, via the gui. I set it > up, or so I thought, for yahoo mail. Attempting to populate my > inbox failed, with a server access message. I checked everything and > the port selection was still the default value, 143, even though I > changed it to value that yahoo mails wants, which is 993. > > I changed it to 993 and said "OK" on the gui. I killed evolution and > restarted it. It still wouldn't read the mail and the port value > had gone back to 143. I searched but could not find a textual file > in the .config/evolution directory, with these values in it. I tried > a number of gyrations, sequences of changing, killing, restarting and > nothing would allow the port setting to remain as needed. > > what can i do to fix this?
Port 143 is IMAP, port 993 is IMAPS. So make sure you set the Encryption method to "TLS on a dedicated port". If it is set to "No encryption" or "STARTTLS", then for both those the (at least initial) port is 143. I suspect that if you had chosen anything other 993, it would have stuck, but would be wrong. 993 definitely requires an SSL encrypted connection. > > ps how do I search this mailing list for posts like this? At the bottom of every post there's a link to the mailing list admin: https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list and from there is an link to the archives that you can search: https://mail.gnome.org/archives/evolution-list/ Also, in the Help within Evolution, there's a section entitled "How to get help" and there's a link in there to the mailing list and archives as well. > pss sad state of affairs when the very first task, in a stable OS, > fails. A discussion elsewhere would probably argue with you that CentOS Stream isn't a stable OS - but this isn't the place for it - however, I suspect that Evolution in it is stable. P. _______________________________________________ evolution-list mailing list [email protected] To change your list options or unsubscribe, visit ... https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
