I've had the same problem with other network software when switching my laptop between networks so I'd guess it's a libc issue with caching lookups. Jeff On Wed, 2005-02-16 at 23:40 +0800, Not Zed wrote:
can only think its something in libc caching the lookup result. or we're getting an error which we should retry on but we don't know we should. without being able to step through the code and recreate the problem i'm not sure what we can do to look into this. i think 1.4.6 has more or less the same hostname resolution code, or maybe the 2.0 stuff is all new - its been so long. On Wed, 2005-02-16 at 13:22 +0100, Roland Orre wrote:There seems to be a bug in the connection scheme in evolution. I move daily between my office and home, and almost every day when I'm coming to the office the connection (by clicking the connection symbol) to my company server fails. I've tried to look this up among known bugs, but I've not been able to find anything. I haven't upgraded for a while, because I want to wait until I'm sure this is resolved (still running 1.4.6). Some years ago I run the Mozilla imap-client instead, and that one did not have this kind of problem, even though I couldn't disconnect it either. At this precise moment I first tried: telnet pop.neurologic.se imap Trying 195.47.247.30... Connected to mail2.b-one.net. Escape character is '^]'. * OK [CAPABILITY IMAP4rev1 UIDPLUS CHILDREN NAMESPACE THREAD=ORDEREDSUBJECT THREAD=REFERENCES SORT QUOTA IDLE ACL ACL2=UNION] Courier-IMAP ready. Copyright 1998-2004 Double Precision, Inc. See COPYING for distribution information. Connection closed by foreign host. which worked well, but when I try to connect with evolution I get: Error while 'Scanning folders in "IMAP server pop.neurologic.se"': Host lookup failed: unknown reason To get this to work I have to exit from evolution and restart it. Could this be a timeout problem? (but I almost never get this problem when I'm coming home). It would in that case be preferrable with an adjustable timeout. But my gut feeling is that when the connection is closed, i.e. clicking on the connection symbol, still some information about the connection is saved, causing it to fail. It is only this server it fails on though, not the others. Best regards Roland Orre _______________________________________________ evolution maillist - evolution lists ximian com http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution
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