Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (516 mails)

[Per Jessen <per@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Carlos E. R. wrote:

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> Hi,
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> I can't convice evolution to read my local email out of dovecot.
> Thunderbird, Alpine, can read it fine. Evolution just says:
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>  Error while scanning folders in "IMAP server localhost".
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> I have no clue what the problem might be.

Enable debug in dovecot.  

> I configure it in "receiving email" with server type "imap", server
> "localhost", username "cer". I tried security as none, as tls, or as
> ssl. None works. If I try "check for supported types", all get
> disabled, except "password". And this does not work.
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> Got it working, using the server name instead of localhost... go
> figure :-/
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> Well, my initial question is solved. But I wonder why "localhost" does
> not work.

Was dovecot listening on localhost and does 'localhost' resolve
to "127.0.0.1" ?


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Per Jessen, Zürich (1.5°C)

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