Evolution and gmail

[John Dangler]

On Wed, 2007-04-04 at 14:41 -0400, Lorenzo Taylor wrote:
> I just got a new gmail account and have set it up in Evolution 2.10.0
> (Ubuntu Feisty). I set up Evolution to chec my mail every minute, which
> may be too often, but I prefer to get my messages as soon as possible.
> The problem is that at times I get an error message that pops up and
> tells me Evolution didn't receive a valid greeting from the server, and
> sometimes it stops checking for messages so that I have to click
> send/receive to start it checking mail again.
You're not alone.  I'm running Edgy, and have been having the same
problem with gmail... (Right now, in fact, I'm watching gmail time out
waiting for a response to the pop server)..
>  Is there a way to suppress
> this error message and force Evolution to keep checking for new mail?
> And a side question: is there a way to have Evolution pick up my mail
> and notify me when new mail arrives without having it fully running on
> my desktop?
I believe there is a way in preferences to set a notifier, but I'll have
to look and see if I can find it...
> 
> Thanks for any help,
> Lorenzo