It occurred to me that I should be using my new att.net account to access the
old yahoo mail, so I called technical support at AT^T after finding the pop
field on the preferences edit menu in evolution. That support guy told me I
did want a POP sending server if I was referring to that server. I still get a
broken pipe, but now I also get an error message that I don't know my own
password at att.
--- On Sat, 5/30/09, Bruce Mincks wrote:
> From: Bruce Mincks
> Subject: Re: [Bug 381915] Re: Evolution will not send mail - "error: broken
> pipe"
> To: b_min...@yahoo.com
> Date: Saturday, May 30, 2009, 1:06 PM
> I'm not using Yahoo Plus. I
> tried to correct the server setting by
> switching to a Unix folder from smtp to receive. The
> problem is
> sending; I've never received anything. I don't know
> how to "check the
> pop3 and smtp server settings." Do I do that in
> evolution or from the
> shell?
>
> I see that there's endless error messages in my Yahoo error
> console,
> repeatedly saying "Permission denied to call method
> Location.toString.
> Permissions are weird in Ubuntu; you have to do "sudo
> chomod" then give
> your user password; you never do declare a root
> password. There's even
> more of these errors I've attached.
>
> Maybe I shouldn't have Google as my homepage in Firefox,
> where I
> bookmarked the yahoo mail. I also have a gmail
> account that I never
> use. I thought I would lose the yahoo account
> whenever I figured out
> how to filter out spam effectively. If I knew how to make
> evolution my
> default, and it worked, I'd be happy to change right
> now. I like the
> interface. I like the idea of managing my email from
> my shell prompt
> even more.
>
>
>
>
> --- On Sat, 5/30/09, thecarpy
> wrote:
>
> > From: thecarpy
> > Subject: [Bug 381915] Re: Evolution will not send mail
> - "error: broken pipe"
> > To: b_min...@yahoo.com
> > Date: Saturday, May 30, 2009, 12:11 PM
> > This looks like a configuration
> > problem in evolution.
> > See https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox/+question/3038
> >
> > Could you please check the pop3 and smtp server
> settings
> > and report them?
> > Please provide details about your email account, are
> you
> > using yahoo mail with pop3 (yahoo Mail Plus) or is
> your ISP
> > using yahoo mail?
> >
> > --
> > Evolution will not send mail - "error: broken pipe"
> > https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/381915
> > You received this bug notification because you are a
> direct
> > subscriber
> > of the bug.
> >
> > Status in “evolution” source package in Ubuntu:
> New
> >
> > Bug description:
> > Binary package hint: evolution
> >
> > The "first time assistant" apparently started up in
> the
> > background without my knowing it. I upgraded a new
> > computer and established DSL at home for the first
> time last
> > month. I found that when responding to pop-up
> emails
> > from web sites, those messages were getting stuck in
> > evolution, not sent through yahoo.
> >
> > I've been through the help deocumentation as I thought
> I
> > had configured Evolution, but when I try to send a
> message,
> > I still get "error: broken pipe" without any
> clarification
> > about the pipe. Part of what is confusing me is a
> > result of my ignorance of network administration
> during the
> > last 20 years of working as a paralegal word
> > processor. I find that the "Unix mbox directory"
> > option for spooling is the only one that lets me go
> forward,
> > but the pipe is still broken, even after I reset the
> > computer.
> >
> > Do I need to have Apache installed for Evolution to
> work?
> >
> > ProblemType: Bug
> > Architecture: i386
> > DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.04
> > ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/evolution
> > Package: evolution 2.26.1-0ubuntu1
> > ProcEnviron:
> > PATH=(custom, user)
> > LANG=en_US.UTF-8
> > SHELL=/bin/bash
> > SourcePackage: evolution
> > Uname: Linux 2.6.28-11-generic i686
> >
>
>
>
>
> ** Attachment added: "Screenshot.png"
> http://launchpadlibrarian.net/27307900/Screenshot.png
>
> --
> Evolution will not send mail - "error: broken pipe"
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/381915
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