I'm trying to use Evolution on the latest CentOS 7.
Whenever I try to receive or send mail, there's always a 90-second delay before the connection works. Since the delay is always exactly 90 seconds, I think I may be waiting for something to time out.
Perhaps this is a clue. My address is user@example.com. I have to log in to pop.example.com or imap.example.com as user, not as user@example.com. Evolution seems to always try to connect as user@pop.example.com or user@imap.example.com. I can't get it to try to connect as user. Perhaps it tries to log in incorrectly and gives up after 90 seconds, and then tries to log in correctly.
I want to use Evolution because I want my mail client to use maildir rather then mbox. I used to use kmail, but that's no longer possible with CentOS 7.