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evolution package

POP/TLS broken in evolution

Bug #68798 reported by bassslave
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evolution (Ubuntu)
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Ubuntu Desktop Bugs

Bug Description

Binary package hint: evolution

After upgrading from dapper to edgy, I have no chance to fetch mails via pop using tls-authentification.

There is no problem with imap. Sending the password unencrypted does also work. I don't know about pop/ssl.

When I try to connect to the pop-server this error is displayed: 'Failed to connect to POP server pop.gmx.net in secure mode: STLS not supported by server'
But it is supported, as I can see using Dapper.

By the way, pop.gmx.net is the only server I have tested.

There is no further output to the console.

Just to know: I'm using kubuntu.

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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

previous version of evolution used to do fallback on non-TLS mode if the server was not supporting it, that might be why it worked. Does it work if you pick an another authentification mode for that account?

Changed in evolution:
assignee: nobody → desktop-bugs
status: Unconfirmed → Needs Info
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bassslave (bassslave) wrote :

SSL does not work. But I know that this is supported by the server.
Cleartext works.
How can I found out, if it only works in fallback-mode?
I haven't known about that before.

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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

The http://www.gnome.org/projects/evolution/bugs.shtml page has hints about debugging evolution. Running it with CAMEL_DEBUG=all should provide useful informations on what the mailer is doing and the tlak to the server

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bassslave (bassslave) wrote :

Great. This report can be canceled.

It's not a bug, it's a feature;-)

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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

marking the bug as reject then. What did you make your change your opinion from the previous comment where you stated that it's supported by the server and works with cleartext?

Changed in evolution:
status: Needs Info → Rejected
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bassslave (bassslave) wrote :

I imply the server would support tls, because I always used evolution with pop/tls to receive the mails. As there was no notice that evolution uses cleartext instead, there was no reason for me to doubt of the server supports it.

But after asking the serverprovider, I found out that this is false.

I'm glad evolution does not have such a fallback-mode anymore.

Sorry, my report was overhasty.

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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote : Re: [Bug 68798] Re: POP/TLS broken in evolution

Le mercredi 01 novembre 2006 à 17:46 +0000, bassslave a écrit :

> Sorry, my report was overhasty.

no problem, thank you for the comments on the issue

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