Error while Fetching Mail. (Evolution, Jaunty)

Hello again.

For whatever it is worth, I installed hotway. I rebooted. Evolution works, I can read my mail.

I think when I cleaned up the old files that were not needed anymore hotway got erased, or something.

Alas I'm suffering from this same situation. Evolution was working just fine immediately before the upgrade process.
Evolution is still working great after going to 9.04 except for when I try to send/receive. Hotmail looks good when I access it directly from the website.

I have the exact same symptoms and have tried the exact same remedies with no success. For example:

+ I rechecked all my settings as prescribed by the UBUNTU forum :
     http://www.ubuntugeek.com/send-and-receive-your-hotmail-messages-through-evolution.html

+ "apt-get install hotway hotsmtp" reports "already the newest version".

+ "sudo /etc/init.d/inetutils-inetd restart" also had no effect.

+ Telnet gets rejected on port 25

            telnet> open localhost 25
            Trying 127.0.0.1...
            telnet: Unable to connect to remote host: Connection refused

      Where I would normally expect to see something like

            telnet> open localhost 25
            Trying 127.0.0.1...
            Connected to localhost.
            Escape character is '^]'.
            220 mail.MYDOMAIN.com ESMTP Postfix (Ubuntu)

I was wondering.... In spite of the warning to close all applications during the upgrade... I mighta gotten bored during the very, very, very long installation process - and open Evolution at the exact wrong moment. I'm not certain that I did this, but could this have l prevented some key files from being upgraded? If so how do I fix it?

Question 1 : Is there a set of command line tests that I can perform to confirm that Hotway is alive

Question 2 : I noticed on a different server that Bugzilla also stopped working after the upgrade. Could they be related?

Question 3 : I noticed on the "What's new in Ubuntu Server Edition" that there were changes to the system firewall?
                     ( http://www.ubuntu.com/products/whatisubuntu/serveredition/techspecs/whatsnew#ufw9.04)
                     Did desktop get those too? Are new firewall rules being applied that weren't there before ?

     Uncomplicated Firewall new features
     Version 0.27 of ufw brings many easy to use new features:

    * ufw now has debconf support, which means that you can enable ufw and setup some basic rules via the
       installer, and most importantly for server, via preseeding. Any "simple" rule can be preseeded (ie: ufw allow 22/tcp)
       as well as application profiles (ie: Cups, DNS, Imap (Secure), Pop3 (Secure), SSH, Samba, Smtp, WWW, WWW
       (Secure)), but not complex one (ie: ufw allow from 192.168.0.0/16 to any port 22 proto tcp).
    * ufw can now be used to add iptables REJECT directives now, both for rules and as the default policy.
    * Rules can now be inserted, rather than just appended to the end.
    * ufw now has the concept of log levels (off, low, medium, high, full) and can log on a per rule basis as well.

I will keep testing and report back later. Any help greatly appreciated..

  : SLUG

This was a good post from 2007. I will try to repeat the steps later.
    http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=445525

OK I carefully inspected the /etc/hosts.allow and /etc/hosts.deny files. There didn't seem to be any problem there.

I also looked at UFW - but it wasn't active. So, it doesn't look like a firewall type problem on the local machine.

That rules out my two previous suggestions. Sorry back to square one.

OK - I got it working 100 % now.,...

The upgrade seems to have removed the features that were there before. Ignore all the stuff I wrote before and do this.

                                                                                        \/ \/ \/
         http://www.ubuntugeek.com/how-to-configure-evolution-to-use-hotmail-in-ubuntu-810-intrepid-ibex.html

Hello again

Ok, maybe I am misguided, if so please set me straight. But when you do an upgrade the upgrade is not supposed to remove features that were there before. I think, at least in my mind, that there is a bug in the upgrade. Can this be fixed?

 Thanks its working for me fine now. That posting from ubuntugeek site is perfect :

  http://www.ubuntugeek.com/how-to-configure-evolution-to-use-hotmail-in-ubuntu-810-intrepid-ibex.html

Hello

I upgraded by using the most brain dead way possible. There is a script that allows you to upgrade, I used it. When the script asked if I wanted to get rid of unused software I said yes. I am not really a ubuntu knowledgeable person. I use it and I like it but I don't have time to keep up with all the details of what is doing on. I guess if I were to write a script, or a python program, or whatever, to do an upgrade I would make a log file that documented everything my program did. Is there such a program for ubuntu upgrades?

I guess the hotway program is still the way to go for accessing msn.com.

Thanks for your interest.

Larry.

I had the same problem, but solved the problem using this http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-1124293.html

I would appear that you don't really need hotway to access emails from hotmail, maybe that's why it was pulled from the repository.

Can I fetch back an email I just sent off? If yes, how can I do it, please?