[Techtalk] [Fwd: Re: Evolution won't talk to IMAP server]

[David Sumbler]

Thanks for that (and to Lisa too, for her off-group reply).  Clearly 
this is the problem.  I'm surprised that Fastmail didn't send out a 
general email highlighting the problem, although perhaps that would just 
be annoying for most of their subscribers who aren't using SSL3.0.

Ubuntu 12.04 is supposedly an LTS version, so perhaps an updated version 
of Evolution will appear, although I shan't hold my breath.

Meanwhile I shall have to decide whether I can learn to love Thunderbird 
(which I doubt), or whether to switch to a non-secure log-in for my 
e-mail.  (I don't want to change to Ubuntu 14.04 or 14.10 at the moment, 
for reasons which are too boring to explain!)

David



On 16/10/14 22:43, Patrick Olson wrote:
> Oops, replied directly without including the mailing list...
>
> ---------------------------- Original Message ----------------------------
> From:    "Patrick Olson" <compman42 at linuxusers.us>
> Date:    Thu, October 16, 2014 2:41 pm
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> On Thu, October 16, 2014 5:09 am, David Sumbler wrote:
>> I use fastmail.fm for email, mainly because I can sort mail into folders
>> on their server.
>
> [snip]
>
>> So how is it that, apparently simultaneously, 2 machines running
>> Evolution suddenly and independently stop being able to refresh any mail
>> folders?
>
> If this is only happening with fastmail, perhaps it's related to this:
>
> http://blog.fastmail.fm/2014/10/15/ssl-3-0-disabled-due-to-security-vulnerability/
>
> Please note, this is based solely on the timing of their announcement,
> which I saw the day before your question. I don't know much about the
> particular email program you use, nor do I work for FastMail. However, I
> figured this might be related to what you're experiencing.
>
> On the other hand, if it's happening with any IMAP server, there must be
> something that is shared between those two machines. Just as an example,
> maybe they have similar/same SSL settings while the Android devices are
> doing something different.
>
> Hope this helps!
>
>
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