Evolution: Always A 90-second Delay

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I’m trying to use Evolution on the latest CentOS 7.

Whenever I try to receive or send mail, there’s always a 90-second delay before the connection works. Since the delay is always exactly
90 seconds, I think I may be waiting for something to time out.

Perhaps this is a clue. My address is user@example.com. I have to log in to pop.example.com or imap.example.com as user, not as user@example.com. Evolution seems to always try to connect as user@pop.example.com or user@imap.example.com. I can’t get it to try to connect as user. Perhaps it tries to log in incorrectly and gives up after 90 seconds, and then tries to log in correctly.

I want to use Evolution because I want my mail client to use maildir rather then mbox. I used to use kmail, but that’s no longer possible with CentOS 7.

3 thoughts on - Evolution: Always A 90-second Delay

  • Isn’t there some way to write a script that would prevent it from looking for anything but what you want? Just curious…

  • Evolution doesn’t “try” anything. It uses the login information entered when you set up the account – that information is also easily editable after the account is setup. There’s no guess work involved.

    A timeout such as you are talking is possibly dns related – or it may be some artefact of the server.

    I’m a fan of Evolution, but there are plenty of other things you can use if it doesn’t work for you and most can deal with maildir stores. BTW, unless you have a real specific need to use POP, it is generally better to use IMAP, and in that case what the mail client uses to store mail is not relevant since no mail is stored locally.

    P.

  • Most IMAP clients that I’ve used treat IMAP as a synchronization protocol for their local mail store (cache), so I don’t think it’s technically true that no mail is stored locally.  Though the storage format does matter less.  I typically exclude the cache from backups, and the kind of excessive writes typical of mbox don’t matter much when an entire disk is used by one user (me) rather than a large office.  So, the benefits of maildir are minimized on desktop clients.