evolution GUI no longer allows for non-default ports for email

[Jamie Strandboge]

Since some ISPs block outbound port 25, some mail servers listen on other ports. Evolution currently uses a combobox but only allows for ports 25, 465 and 587 and users must dig down into gconf settings to change this. The same is true for incoming mail (though this may be less of a problem).

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
Package: evolution 3.1.4-0ubuntu3
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-8.11-generic 3.0.1
Uname: Linux 3.0.0-8-generic x86_64
Architecture: amd64
Date: Tue Aug 16 07:01:51 2011
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Release amd64 (20110425.2)
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: evolution
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-07-23 (24 days ago)

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

as a workaround you can probably use server:port ; this fix was discussed at https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=418954

[Jamie Strandboge (jdstrand)]

server:port does not work as the colon is converted to (iirc) html encoding. You have to edit the xml entry in gconf-editor afaict.

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

I've sent this upstream at https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=656733

[Michael Terry (mterry)]

This was fixed upstream in 3.1.90, we're on 3.1.91.

[Jamie Strandboge (jdstrand)]

I meant to confirm this on the latest upload -- it is indeed fixed.