Jonathan Ryshpan wrote: > ATT does offer a web-mail interface, which shows that I have no email > pending. Nevertheless, evolution shows repeatedly that it can't fetch > the message with ID ALwwvs4AAB//RP55HQdLMjcw/zI. I suspect that you are > right about Evolution trying to fetch a message that isn't there, > because clicking the configuration box "Disable support for all POP3 > extensions" in Edit->Preferences->... makes the problem go away. > > I would still like to look over the traffic, so I can figure out what's > going on and maybe do something about it. I vaguely remember some > environment variable that will cause Evolution to log its traffic with > the server, but no-one has been able to remind me what it is ... So it > looks like it's time to break out WireShark. Perhaps Evolution has stored some state information in your home directory and is confused. I would suggest to delete ~/.evolution (yes you would loose all your configuration and mail already downloaded... an alternative is to simply move away this directory somewhere else) and see if this helps. Regards, .lzs -- http://thinkingfarm.com/~lzs/