Re: [Evolution] Evo Hang on Network Problems

[Jeffrey Stedfast <fejj ximian com>]

On Fri, 2004-01-30 at 09:36, Dan McGinn-Combs wrote:
> Sheesh... I don't want to start a round of "no it's not!", but I've
> noticed a couple of times that if I experience even a slight hiccup in
> the network, Evolution (1.45 on Gentoo 1.4-ish) croaks. I'm running in
> IMAP against a Microsoft Exchange 2000 server and often connect on the
> network directly and also over an obviously rickety PPTP VPN.
>
> By croaks, I mean that it sits trying to retrieve a single message and
> can't. If I click on another folder, it displays a blank screen and
> never ever gets the headers back. Eventually, I see a message at the
> bottom saying "pinging <servername>." In order to get things moving
> again, I issue the "evolution --force-shutdown" command and restart.
> Poof! everything is normal again.
>
> Is there any way to avoid this? Ideally I could just connect to the
> Exchange server periodically and download mail into a local file....
> is that possible?

known issue... it *should* force a disconnect from the server if you hit
the Stop button in the toolbar or the Cancel button in the send&receive
dialog

and then changing folders once or twice should force a reconnect.
anyways, the imap code is in desperate need of a rewrite - there are a
number of places in the code that try to handle unexpected disconnects
but most them them all get it wrong and it's just too hard to fix.

so basically, if stop/cancel don't work, then you have to restart evo :\

> I also note that if I use SpamAssassin as a filtering tool
> (spamassassin -e) to identify and remove spam, it takes f-o-r-e-v-e-r
> to cycle through new messages and remove them to the spam folder.
> Would working from a file-based messaging database resolve this issue
> as well?

no, the slowness here is like 100% spamassassin.

Jeff