Problem getting mail with Evolution but not with Thunderbird
Gabriel Dragffy
gabe at dragffy.com
Fri May 11 16:45:11 UTC 2007
I experienced the same thing one. The solution (for me) was to login via
webmail and delete all the messages on the server (after reading them
online). It seems that once of the messages caused evolution to choke.
As always - YMMV
On Fri, 2007-05-11 at 12:29 -0400, Rick Berger wrote:
> Just upgraded to Feisty Fawn and I'm trying to go back to Evolution for
> my email. But when it goes to get the mail:
>
> *
>
> it just gets one or two emails from the pop server
>
> *
>
> expunges them
>
> *
>
> sits there in send receive till I click Cancel
>
> *
>
> then gives an error: ' Error while Fetching Mail. Cannot get
> message D570EAF8-E66A-4F58-BB3F-9C3933BDF63C: Unknown reason'
>
> Repeating a Get Mail does the same thing gives the same type of error
> only stating 'No such file or directory' instead of 'Unknown reason'.
>
> Thunderbird has no problems getting the mail but I'd sure like to go
> back to Evolution.
>
> Any suggestions on what I've done wrong.
>
> Rick
>
>
--
Gabriel
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