Bug 163985

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Description of problem:
mail-notification and Adelphia's PowerLink conflict. It appears mail-notification will not release the pop3 connection to Powerlink. I have had evolution installed and working for months (FC3 & FC4). I found out about mail-notification and added it to replace the missing "Inbox Monitor" from FC3. mail-notification installed and set-up fine. I wanted to use it to monitor my adelphia and msn accounts. I set-up both with the same information I used for evolution. The msn account works fine. (It uses HotWayd to access msn via port 110 of the local web browser.) The adelphia account has never worked. It uses a real pop3 server (mail.adelphia.net) on port 110. mail-notification continuously blinks. Whenever I start evolution and it goes to check for e-mail I get the password prompt. This repeats about 8 times then I get a "Error Fetching EMail". While mail-notification is running (have waited for about 2 hours) no e-mail gets received. Stopping mail-notification and the next evolution check will downloaded the e-mail that has arrived in the interim.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
mail-notification-1.1-3

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Start mail-notification
2. Run evoultion Send/Receive
3.
  

Actual Results:  Severl password prompts and then finally a "Error Fetching EMail" message.

Expected Results:  Fetch any e-mail if available. Note that if you leave mail-notification running the password/failure messages continue. As soon as you stop mail-notification the next Send/Receive works fine.

Additional info:

I have tried running mail-notification from the command line with the -enable-info switch but this provide no additional data on the problem. I suspected the "autodetect" and tried every Authentication Mechanism. Nothing worked any better than "autodetect". At this point mail-notification is useless, since I run evolution and have it set-up to download e-mails periodically. I thought mail-notification was an "Inbox Monitor" replacement which would catch my attention for newly arrived e-mail.