Re: [Evolution] How to make Evo work on a dialup that drops

["Zot O'Connor" <zot zotconsulting com>]

I did a test.

If you wait for the error cannot connect message, and do not click the
OK, and then dial in, and then click the OK, and then send/recieve it
does work.

Now, what is the timeout for that error message, and how can we effect
it?

On Fri, 2002-09-13 at 01:43, Xavier Bestel wrote:
> Le jeu 12/09/2002 à 14:29, Not Zed a écrit :
> > On Fri, 2002-09-13 at 05:23, Jeffrey Stedfast wrote:
> > > 1.1.x is a lot better about this afaik. And no, Evolution never "locked"
> > > on an IP address.
> >
> > the os will though.  it will take a while to time out existing
> > connections/connection attempts.
>
> I think I know what he means: on my redhat 6.2 installation, a running
> application will never be able to (re)connect to any site after ppp0's
> address changed. It has to be restarted. This has made Evolution
> impossible to use over an unreliable phone line when I have lots of
> mail.
>
>       Xav
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