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GMail offers POPoSSL and SMTP on non-standard ports. Novell Evolution doesn't provides an explicit way of specifying the port. Instead, the port should be specified implictly in the URL. Expand the post to find some screenshots to help a Evolution newbies to configure GMail on Novell Evolution.

Configuring the ...


I brief overview of Novell Evolution architecture is available here. The weekly status meeting of Evolution is on every Wednesday 16:00 IST(?) on #evolution-meet and Evolution Bug day is every Thursday during 20:30 to 06:00 IST on #evolution on GimpNet (Simple way to connect is through irc ...


For my surprise the news came today that GMail is increasing the user space from 1GB to 2GB. I initially thought this as an "April Fool". But when you goto the page of GMail, you see the space keeps increasing every instance. It is now around 1060 MB and keeps ...


Mozilla Thuderbird is not working on my Debian Sarge since the last 'apt-get dist-upgrade'. The program recieves SIGSEGV. This is really annoying. Here is the backtrace from GDB.

(gdb) backtrace
#0  0x41287040 in CalcLength ()
   from /usr/lib/mozilla-thunderbird/components/libgklayout.so
#1  0x41287279 in CalcLength ()
   from /usr/lib/mozilla-thunderbird/components ...

I just now configured the POP server for GMail on my localhost. Courtesy FreePOPS. It rocks. The configuration was just a matter of child's play. Once I installed the debian package, and configured my Thunderbird, it worked like a charm.