Re: [Evolution] Mismatch between subject and message contents

[Parthasarathi Susarla <sparthasarathi novell com>]

On Mon, 2006-01-09 at 07:16 -0400, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
[snip]
> Unless I misunderstand what you're saying, you're moving it from
> somewhere remote to somewhere local, which is a big difference.
Yup. Locally. All 'journal'led (like you are in the offline mode and
replayed when back online)


> But you can never give an upper bound to how long a remote sync will
> take. Servers go down, networks are disconnected, power failures happen.
> The essence of a distributed application (of which remote mail is a
> fairly simple example) is that you can survive these events without loss
> of data (which is not the same as perfect consistency between client and
> server, but that was never guaranteed anyway). Once you can do that, you
> can impose an upper bound on stopping Evo, say 30 seconds.
That would be a good idea.(viz. A 30 sec upper bound.)

With the Network manager support that has gone into HEAD (2.5.x) - a lot
of issues are handled by evolution. Like when the network is down,
Evolution switches to offline, and journals everything and replays it
when Evo is back online.

-partha