Re: [Evolution] evolution hangs frequently when on adsl link

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On Thu, 2004-02-19 at 16:50 +1300, Russell Fulton wrote:

> Hi All,
>       I am using evolution 1.4 on a Mandrake 9.2 system.  Some of the time I
> am connected via ethernet but at other times via a 802.11b net to a
> 128Kbps adsl link (at home).
>
> When on the wlan/adsl connection evolution frequently hangs with
> "pinging IMAP server ....." in the status line.  This seems to take at
> least 10 minutes to time out.
>
> Running standard pings over the link I get about a 3% Packet loss -- I
> will be taking this up with the supplier.
>
> Quite why evolution thinks it is necessary to ping the server and why it
> hangs up with such a long timeout is beyond my comprehension.

If you dont ping the server, the server will just dump you off it for
being idle.  It also doubles as a new mail check for the current folder.

> Does anyone else have this trouble? Is there a way to shorten the
> timeout on (or preferably disable) the pings.
>
> Some times other operations (particularly those that have sub ops like expunge) fail.
>
> I have seen this problem very occasionally while connected via ethernet and
> somewhat more frequently while on a dialup connection -- but nothing
> like as frequently as with the dsl link. 
>
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