[K12OSN] evolution outbox broken - Resolved (kind of)

[Gavin Chester]

On Fri, 2005-02-25 at 14:09 +0800, Gavin Chester wrote:

 > After installing k12ltsp 4.2.0 I seem to have IP/mailbox conflicts
 > that this newbie doesn't know where to start looking to solve.  When I
 > try to send an email (even to myself) evolution is trying to use a POP
 > server on my local machine despite correct settings I have given to
 > all mail accounts to use my dialup ISP's mail server.
 > The mail delivery times-out with the error:
 >
 > RCPT to <k12osn at redhat.com> failed.  Requested action not taken.
 > Mailbox unavailable.  Could not connect to POP server 192.168.0.1
 > (port pop3)
 > Connection timed out.
 >
 > I have checked the mail settings and there is no reason I can see for
 > it to be trying to use that local IP of my machine.

YAY! I've kind of got this solved and don't have to send from Hotmail 
anymore :-)))

I was able to resolve this issue by downloading and installing 
Thunderbird to use instead of Evolution.  As soon as I fired off an 
email there were NONE of the delivery problems that I had with Evo. 
Weird. That exercise proves that my original problem was just with Evo. 
  Anyone else had problems with the latest version of it that came with 
the K12LTSP 4.2.0 isos?

I guess I'll go through the exercise of migrating all my old mailboxes 
to Thunderbird.  Like I needed the extra work. I guess I was also 
dismayed about Evo being picked up by Novell as a paid product anyway :-(

Regards, Gavin