Re: [Evolution] Evolution online/offline state

[HvR <hvrietsc myrealbox com>]

how about an external online/offline cmd? so that i can offline evo just
before taking the nic down?

On Mon, 2002-12-02 at 19:59, Not Zed wrote:
> On Tue, 2002-12-03 at 01:07, Daniel Eriksson wrote:
> > Hi.
> > I wrote to the list about this about a year ago. I
> > never got any real response then so I'll try it
> > again. I use Evolution on my modem connected
> > computer. My problem is that the online/offline
> > state in Evolution doesn't reflect the real
> > online/offline state of my computer. This can of
> > course easily be solved by me clicking the
> > online/offline button in Evolution every time i
> > connect/disconnect to Internet. I have a proposal
> > for a better solution though, just wanted to know
> > what everybody else thinks about it.
> >
> > The solution is very easy. I would need a checkbox
> > in the Evolution settings named something like
> > "display annoying messages when no network found"
> > (or maybe the negated version "silently discard
> > network errors"). My idea is that if I try to send a
> > mail my computer tries to connect to the smtp server
> > and if it's not found it silently puts the mail in
> > my outbox without telling me and when the computer
> > tries to check the pop3 server for mail and it can't
> > be reached it just doesn't check it.
> >
> > This way my Evolution could always stay in online
> > mode and work anyway. Couldn't be more than at most
> > ten lines of code to implement, could it?
>
> No its not really that easy at all.  You can't just hide all errors
> because you dont know which are network errors and which are something
> else entirely.  For example, the error messages from local mailboxes
> such as 'out of disk space' are a bit more important, but currently they
> just use the same error codes.
>
> I suggest you just learn to click offline, that is what its there for.
>
>
>
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