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I have given up on getting the new Evolution version to work properly. Shame, that.

I have given up on this project. My goal was to get Evolution to work properly, and it seems that the current version does not. There is a known bug that prevents the spam filters from working properly, and that makes it useless for me. So I reloaded the VM from an old backup, and futzed with...

Well, my follow-ups will have to wait. I have business that needs urgent attention and a trip to Washington DC. I won't be able to get back to this until Friday (a week from now).

I don't know if anyone still is following this thread, but it gets curiouser and curiouser. I have a bunch of older FreeBSD VMs that I checked for email delivery, and they didn't work. I went back to check that one of my old FreeBSD VMs was set up properly. It turns out that I had it set to...

The answer from Westhost: After looking at your request to up date the DNS so that the IP 1.2.3.4 resolves back to example.com. We can not do that currently because the primary domain on the account is examplewife.com. You would need to either change the primary domain of the account, or you...

Alas, this seems to be a known bug: https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-gnome/2015-August/032895.html This makes Evolution pretty useless for me, since I get about 500 spams a day and there is no way to train any of the filters.

scottro has it exactly right. I contacted Westhost, which we use for web and email services, to update the PTR record to point to my email server instead of my wife's. I'll post when things work as they should. FWIW, Westhost has been very good for us, and this is the first glitch we have had...

OK -- I'll expand before turning in. I installed the bind utilities, and found with dig (and scottro's help) that I could locate the IP address of my mail server. That IP address could not identify the name of my mail server, but rather the domain that hosts mine. It seems not to be my ISP...

There is no solution yet, but scottro pointed out something to me in an email message off the forum here that I have to pursue. It is late, and I'm heading to bed, but I'll follow up. Heaven knows that FreeBSD documentation often is scarce, and these and other fora are the only places where...

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drill -x <homeaddress> gives the same error as above. Using the IP address for my website/email host works.

OK -- what do I ask the ISP? And my apologies for using drill incorrectly!

prosecco:/etc % more resolv.conf # Generated by resolvconf search wavecable.com nameserver 192.168.0.1 Wavecable is my ISP; the other is my local router. I wondered if this was an issue with reverse lookups, but it always has worked in the past.

Including the -x flag gives the same result.

% drill 66.237.94.160 Error: error sending query: Could not send or receive, because of network error This is an address to a colleague at NIH, so it should be good.

Thank you. dig seems not to be installed, but drill is. I'll try a couple of outside addresses. Additional data: I have a couple of older FreeBSD VMs (9 era/Gnome2) that were perfectly functional when last used. They now not able to send or receive email. Weird. The web/email hosting...

You are going to have to speak slowly. I've been with FreeBSD a long time, but I do not know many of the inside workings. With that in mind, what are dig or drill??

A week ago I installed 64-bit FreeBSD 10.2, Mate (the gnome2 fork) and Evolution 3.16.5, among other things, in a VMware Workstation virtual machine (Win7). I find that sendmail gives an error message "Relaying temporarily denied. Cannot resolve PTR record for ..." I can send mail to myself...

A week ago I installed mail/evolution 3.16.5 (from ports) on a fresh 10.2 64-bit FreeBSD base and Mate (the gnome2 fork) inside a VMware virtual machine. As options I included both spamassassin and bogofilter. However, the junk control options do not appear in the preferences tab, and neither...

All of my old email messages are in mbox format. It is not clear if some are corrupted or not. That's why I asked the other questions.