Hey all,

I have a problem that is really starting to piss me off. I am using Redhat 8.0 and would like to use Ximian Evolution 1.4 as my mail client, but I am unable to send or receive e-mail. Evey time I try to connect to my ISP's mail server the request just times out. This happens in all the mail clients I have tried (mozilla, Kmail). I am using KDE 3.1 as my desktop.

I have guard dog installed as my firewall, and have configured it to let pop and smtp mail go through, as well as manually configuring holes on ports 25 and 110, and still no dice. I suspect this is a firewall issue, but I am not adept enough at configuring IP tables to do any good. I can ping the mail server, if this makes any difference. Any help on this matter would be GREATLY appreciated.

On an unrelated note, I just installed SUSE 8.2 on another box (I can get e-mail fine on this machine), and I would like to change the computer name (ie. jakelegged@xx-xx-xx-xx-xx),to a differant name (ie. jakelegged@susebox), but I can't figure out how to do it.

Thanks again in advance

I am running RH9, and just up'ed Evolution to 1.4, too.

Now, I cannot connect to my mail servers (Cox). I can send, but not receive. All other mail clients work fine. Seems to be a big problem, because there have been numerous postings on the Evolution mailing lists. You can subscribe to those to get the bigger picture, and (hopefully) get the answer.

Evolution Mailing List sign-up

Evolution archives (Look in May/June, that is when it started)

hth,

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biggy,

Thanks for responding. I'll check out the evolution mailing lists. I'd like to think that we could use evolution with RH 8, but maybe there is a serious bug in the program. I can't connect up or down. I upgraded to the latest evolution client, and it didn't help at all.

Good luck man

Ya, I'm having the same damn problem with Cox & Evolution 1.4.0 on R.H. 9.0...