Text 43255, 51 rader
Skriven 2008-02-15 20:59:11 av Alan Zisman (1:123/789.0)
  Kommentar till text 43235 av JEAN PARROT (1:123/140)
Ärende: Evolution Setup
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JEAN PARROT -> ALAN ZISMAN wrote:

 JP>     Hello  Alan, nice chatting with you. !

 AZ>> -- I walked through setting up Evolution to work with my cable
 AZ>> Internet provider, shaw.ca.
 AZ>> In the first screenshot, you'll see that you're asked to define the
 AZ>> sort of email Gserver-- by far the most common for home users is POP;
 AZ>> Given a POP server (sometime called a POP3 server), you then need to
 AZ>> know the server name-- this is the server from which your mail is
 AZ>> received.

 JP>         Out of luck here, Alan. First, let me thank you for your nice
 JP>    message c/w the screen shots. You know what my problem is ? I never
 JP>    have set up a service with Videotron, I do not have a PW, nix ! I
 JP>    toyed with the idea of phoning them to set this up, not yet. Using
 JP>    the pop.videotron.ca seems (?) to work as it then asks me for a PW
 JP>    and I have none set up. I tried "default", "password" too, no joy.
 JP>    In the PW choices, I had also selected Login, that did not help.

 JP>         I tried all kinds of inputs in those lines, I had tried all as
 JP>    you suggested before and, as it does not work, I think the problem
 JP>    is as noted above. You are free to disagree and let me know. I can
 JP>    still use FF and get the messages as I do here, on Gmail.




If you have a Videotron email account, the password you use to access it would
be the one to use-- however, you use a gmail account when I've emailed you--
you can enable either POP or iMAP with gmail, and then set up an standard email
program (Evolution, Thunderbird, Eudora, Outlook Express/Outlook, Apple Mail,
etc etc etc) to access it-- if you log into gmail's webmail page and click the
Help link in the top right, you'll see a list of help topics... there's a
section labelled Access Choices, with POP and IMAP links below it.

The instructions are very detailed and include many popular email clients
(though not Evolution-- the Configuring other mail clients item ought to work,
though).

Or just continue to use gmail's webmail-- which is what I do. No configuration
needed, and always in sync whether using any of your many computers, Windows or
Linux or what have you.
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