GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 358480
Does not support alternate POP ports (Windows)
Last modified: 2021-05-19 12:15:12 UTC
Please describe the problem: When attempting to use an alternate POP3 port by specifying the pop server as "mail.somedomain.com:5555", upon attempting to connect, Evolution 2.6.2 for Windows displays the following error message: "Could not create directory D:/Profiles/foo/.evolution/mail/pop/foo@mail.somedomain.com:5555:" This is pretty obviously due to the ":" character being illegal in a Windows path. Suggested solution - either translate ":" to some legal character for file paths, or provide an another means of specifying alternate port numbers (IMAP and SMTP, too). Steps to reproduce: 1. Create a new email account, specifying an alternate POP3 port by appending ":5555" (or similar) to the server name. 2. Attempt to check mail for that account. 3. Observe the mentioned error. Actual results: as above Expected results: Should connect to POP3 mail server. Does this happen every time? Yes Other information:
I've had the same problem. Unfortunately, it's a deal-breaker, and we've just had to abandon Evo - such a shame, as I love it, and use it all the time for personal use on Linux. But some organisations just have to use Windows.
I've experienced the same problem with version 2.22.2, March (June?) 2008, and wonder how anyone uses Gmail or any other relevant HTML mail system in POP, IMAP or any other mode with Evolution in Windows. Maybe you should throw a warning in the Account Editor when a colon, ":", is entered in either of the Server fields: "We don't do custom ports - find a different program." I appreciate that Evolution in Windows is a volunteer driven project but consider that the majority of the persons trying it probably must enter a port.
updating evo version as per last comment
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