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

[Russell Fulton <r fulton auckland ac nz>]

Hi Jeff,
First off, thanks for your helpful response.  For some reason I never
got a copy your reply from the list so I got this from the archive.

Thanks to others too who made helpful suggestions!

OK so I now understand what evo means by ping -- I agree that calling it
a noop will be just as confusing to most users.  Heart beat is another
common term for such behaviour but again most users won't have a clue.

If ximian do decide to change the string I suggest a purely functional
description e.g. "waiting for response from server".

> nope and nope.

That's what I really wanted to know -- I'll focus my efforts on the network.

> well, you can press the Stop button in the toolbar - 
> that should force a disconnect (there's a few code paths where that 
> doesn't work, but for the most part it should)

THanks for that!  In (much) older versions of evo the stop button often
did not work and I got into the habit of ignoring it.  This is a useful
work around while I sort out the network problems.

Hmmmm... after interrupting a 'ping' I now get a message box "Error
while 'retrieving message <random string>': no such file or directory"
when ever I try and access a message.  

When I try and change folder I get "Error while storing folder '<name>':
Error storing '<name>@<server>:INBOX': SUCCESS"

At least I can (I hope) shut evo down gracefully and restart without
having to either wait for timeout or kill processes.

Cheers, Russell

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