Evolution will not successfully download new messages

[lovswr]

Eveolution on Fedora RC1. As i subscribe to several lists i usuall have several hundered new messgaes every day. I have a pop3/smtp acount with earthlink & a imap account with fastmail.de. Sending is ok & getting new messages from the imap account is ok as well. The problem is getting new messages from the pop3 account (I'm on Eartlink DSL in Atlanta, GA.)

The last 3 days it will get to message # 131 & then stop cold. I did go to the web account & just deleted every single message & then checked via eveolution a short while later...this worked until I hit the "magic" 132nd message. I read over at www.broadbandreports.com that for DSL the MTU had to be 1492 (it was)...I then tried several lesser values all to no avail. I checked my settings in eveolution & discovered that the smtp authintication type was ssl. I turned this off, & now instead of sputtering slowly to 131 (with 3 to 4 messages comng in & then a few seconds of inactivity) the progress bar moves pretty quickly up to 131 & then stops as before.

The only change that I have made to this system is that I finally got a very, very , (did I say very) basic squid working. I made no changes to turtlefirewall & before (say last week) I was routinely downloading 1500 messages at a time.

Fedora RC1 is the only OS on that box, (AMD t-bird 1200 512MD & Mactor 40GB with about 31MG free).

Any help/suggestions will be greatly appreciated.

[Void Main]

You might try debugging the message transfers with this tip. Here is another possibility. I have also had problems that were not in the above knowlege base but I solved by messages I found in the Evolution mailing list archives. You might search though them. In fact if you don't get anywhere with that you might subscribe to it and ask your question there. Chances are you might get help from someone who actually works on Evotion and could help solve your problem. It might turn out to not be an Evolution problem though.

[lovswr]

Ok..I have since found out the Eartlink branded DSL in the Metro Atlanta, GA area is , in fact, Bellsouth DSL.

Bellsoutn just recenly upgraded the DSL infrastucture to something called BBG (L2TP 2.5) . To make a long story short, a change to the pppoe authentication method & trunking capablitliy was implemented which lets BS put thousands more customers on the DSL netowrk for less money.

Several current users have my same or similar trouble after this upgrade but they were actually using their home routers/gateways as the pppoe terminating device & the fix for them was to updgrade the router/gateway firmware. I do not. My Fedora RC1 box performs that function.


I have found this pppoe package for *nix

I use the standard pppoe wizard that comes with Fedora (looks like it has not changed since Redhat 7.3) Does anybody think that the ppp implementation may be better with the link I provided (or any other software for that matter) or is the standard wizzard good enougn? Also, where do I go to specifically find out if the default software (as in, who wrote & or maintains that pppoe module) adequeately supports BBG/L2TP?