On Fri, 2014-01-24 at 17:37 -0500, Eric Beversluis wrote:

> On Fri, 2014-01-24 at 22:22 +0000, Pete Biggs wrote:
> > > Update: I had pretty much decided the problem (getting I/O timeout with
> > > Send/Receive on Evolution--doesn't seem to affect sending new email) lay
> > > in my Motorola 5101 modem from TimeWarner. It may still lie there but I
> > > just noticed this: My wife is out of town for a week. She uses a Mac and
> > > Mac's Mail, which is on all the time. With her gone, I haven't had any
> > > problems with my Evolution mail failing to connect ("Error while
> > > fetching mail from .... Could not connect to .... I/O operation timed
> > > out"). So I pulled out an old MacBook and sure enough, as soon as I
> > > turned on Mail, I started getting the timeout problems again. Turn off
> > > Mail and Evolution mail works fine. 
> > 
> > That'll be interesting to sort out!
> > 
> > Are you (both) on wired or wireless connections? 
> The apple--both my wife's and the one I'm testing today--are on
> wireless. The Fedora 19 box is mostly on wireless, but the problem seems
> to exist also when I switch to an Ethernet connection.
> 
> > 
> > Are you both using the same server / account for mail?
> > 
> > To be honest it sounds like something is wrong with your NAT
> > router/firewall in that the packets are being sent to the wrong host -
> > it could be configuration or it could just be a bug, but it certainly
> > seems like packets are going astray.
> Using a brand new Netgear RangeMax N150 WPN 824N wireless router. I
> ditched my old one because I thought it might be the problem.
> 
> > 
> > > 
> > > Interestingly this does not happen on this computer at work, in a small
> > > office where the boss uses Mac and Mac Mail all the time--even when he
> > > was using earlier versions of Mac.
> > 
> > It's probably because your office doesn't use a NAT'd network - or that
> > the NAT router works properly.
> > 
> Yes--we're Nat'd there too.
> 
> > P.
> > 
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Packet capture it...it's a linux box after all ;)  Guessing, for some
odd reason port saturation is happening for whatever reason.  Look for
icmp replies from the router for clues.

James

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