[PLUG] email failure message Suse/Evolution

[Ken Stephens]

On Thu, 2007-04-19 at 19:56 -0700, tkubaska at charter.net wrote:
> Has anyone seen something like this ...
> 
> I just installed Suse 10.2. I configured Evolution just like I had with Ubuntu. Mail for a while did not work. I fussed, changed nothing really and then it started to work but I alwasy got this error message.
> 
> "RCPT TO <my_comcast_address> failed. Requested action not taken. mailbox unavailable"
> 
> I'd get a window popup with that message three time (one popup; the message was repeated in it three times. The mail still worked and was sent.
> 
> Now, the popup does not appear. Mail appears to be working. I called comcast twice but of course had to be uising windows and Outlook Express on another machine when I called. Outlook Express worked fine. Comcast will not talk to me if I mention I am using Linux or Evolution of even Outlook. It must be Outlook Express.
> 
> But honestly I made no config changes between when it worked and when it didn't. I did reboot a few times. But the working was not linked with one reboot. I don't see why multiple reboots would make mail start working.
> 
> So much of what I said here sounds like nonsense (to me too). My question is has anyone seen that error message I quoted above and if so, what does it mean.
> 
> Thanks.
>  -Ted

Ted,

You may have a different version of evolution from the previous distro.
Try deleting the meta data for you local mail box.  Delete the *cmeta,
*ev-summary *ibex* files in the ~/.evolution/mail/local directory.
-- 
Ken Stephens
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