Re: [Evolution] imap error message is annoying

[Jay Kreps <ejk ucsc edu>]

Right, but put yourself in the position of the user.  One email client
produces irritating and useless error messages at regular intervals,
whereas all others work fine.  I doubt any reasonable person would
conclude that it was the server that was broken; they would probably
just use a different email client.  

I am trying not to be a helpless user here, I am quite willing to fix
the problem myself.  But before I do this I just want someone to agree
that it would be better if evolution just showed you as being
disconnected and omitted the errors (which would confuse any non-
technical person anyway).  If no one thinks this is a problem, then I
would be wasting my time creating a fix. I would also very much
appreciate it, if someone could give a bit of advice on what to change
to accomplish this.  I can, of course, figure it out for myself, but I
suspect that it would be only a matter of a few minutes for someone who
knew the codebase well to advice me, and would save me a great deal of
time and mucking about.  Perhaps I have emailed the wrong list and no
one here is qualified to do this?

Also, 10 minutes is a made up number.  In fact I do not know (aside from
the mail check polling interval) when evolution is and is not active
IMAP-wise, so I can't say how long.  I said ~10 minutes, but it may well
be 30.

Thanks!

-Jay

On Wed, 2005-01-05 at 11:05 -0500, Jeffrey Stedfast wrote:
> the IMAP spec also guarentees that the server will not disconnect the
> client until at LEAST 30 minutes of inactivity
>
> so 10 minutes == broken server
>
> and if it really is disconnecting after 10 minutes no matter what (even
> if there is activity), then that just means the server is even more
> broken.
>
> Jeff
>
> On Tue, 2005-01-04 at 10:27 +0800, Gideon N. Guillen wrote:
> > On Mon, 03 Jan 2005 10:43:32 -0800, Jay Kreps <ejk ucsc edu> wrote:
> > > That is an excellent suggestion, but unfortunately that was the first
> > > thing I tried.  The server disconnects after ~10 minutes regardless of
> > > whether or not you are idle.  Thus changing the mail checking interval
> > > doesn't have any effect.
> >
> > How many minutes did you set Evolution for the polling interval anyway?
> >
> > If it still disconnects even if you set Evolution to retrieve new mail
> > automatically at at time lesser than 10 minutes (let's say every 5
> > minutes) or if you check it manually every 10 minutes, then the mail
> > server must be broken.