Preserving evolution mail during OS changes

[Kai Thomsen]

On Sun, 7 Sep 2003 17:02:50 -0500 (CDT), dsavage at peaknet.net wrote:

> Before doing a fresh install of Severn on my laptop, I copied a
> tarball of my home directory to another system. After Severn was
> intalled, I restored my ~/evolution/ subdirectory from that tarball,
> and also reviewed my send& receive mail configs.
>
> This restored all old e-mail and folders. Inbound e-mail resumed
> immediately, but I am unable to send evolution e-mail thru my ISP as
> before. Every time I try to send a test message I get the following
> error:
>
>      Error while performing operation:
>      MAIL FROM response error: Command unrecognized: ""

Google found this thread:

  http://www.mail-archive.com/evolution@lists.ximian.com/msg03317.html


HTH,
--Kai